Re: sysutils/lsof stopped working for non-root user

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

whereas fstat still works on OpenBSD:
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$ doas pkg_add lsof
doas (xci%o62.lorien.lan@localhost) password:
quirks-2.367 signed on 2017-10-03T11:21:28Z
Can't find lsof
Obsolete package: lsof (ancient software that doesn't work)
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$ fstat|head -5
USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT        INUM MODE         R/W    SZ|DV
xci      ksh        13960 text /           35860  -r-xr-xr-x     r   563936
xci      ksh        13960   wd /home       25984  drwxr-xr-x     r      512
xci      ksh        13960    0 pipe 0x0 state:
xci      ksh        13960    1 /             566  crw--w----    rw    ttyp2
$ uname -a
OpenBSD o62.lorien.lan 6.2 GENERIC#9 amd64
$ id
uid=1000(xci) gid=1000(xci) groups=1000(xci), 0(wheel)
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(I haven't tried OpenBSD 6.3 yet).

So while the loss of lsof shouldn't be that big of a cause for lament,
there is some issue.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 10:38, <maya%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:34:25PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> > On Sep 27,  2:56pm, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > } On Sep 27,  8:51am, ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost (Chavdar Ivanov) wrote:
> > }
> > } | So is this expected and intended consequence, bug or still unfinished
> > } | part of the project? Just curious (it runs on FreeBSD-current, latest
> > } | CentOS, NetBSD-8).
> > }
> > } I think it is unexpected, but maybe intended. I need to examine why it fails.
> >
> >      lsof is known to be a kvm groveller.
> >
> >      Does fstat, which comes as part of the NetBSD base install, work?
> >
> > }-- End of excerpt from Christos Zoulas
>
> Nope, it returns empty results unless run as root.



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