[mythtv-users] swap not displaying

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 23:19:33 UTC 2005


On 6/16/05, Dan Wilga <dwilga at mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> >On 6/10/05, Dan Wilga <dwilga at mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> >>  At 6:34 PM -0500 6/9/05, Matt wrote:
> >>  >Running CVS, when I go into the system status, when I try to view the
> >>  >Swap it shows "Unknown".  It used to work just fine until I upgraded
> >>  >to latest CVS recently.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >>  Swap shows just fine for me, as of a CVS version from about a week
> >>  ago. Perhaps when you upgraded the setuid bit was lost, and the user
> >>  you're running mythfrontend as can get to /proc ?
> >>  --
> >
> >So how could I fix that?
> 
> First:
> 
>   ls -ld /proc
> 
> If you see something like:
> 
>   dr-xr-x---  219 root system 0 May 31 09:37 /proc
> 
> then the mode "dr-xr-x---" means that only root and people in the
> group called "system" can read /proc. One way around this would be to
> add whatever user you run mythfrontend as to the system group. (pico
> /etc/group)
> 
> Another way would be to use setuid on mythfrontend. Have a look at
> Jarod's guide. I'm sure it's in there somewhere.
> 
> If the mode on the directory is already "dr-xr-xr-x", then this
> probably isn't your problem.
> 
> --
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> 

concord:~# ls -ld /proc
dr-xr-xr-x  149 root root 0 2005-06-16 18:12 /proc


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