Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd.netbsd-help: 3-Mar-97 xload
problems with recent .. by "Paul M. Newhouse"@a.crl 
> I'm running a NetBSD-current (about a month old).  When I run
> xload I get:
>  
> xload: can't open kvm files hX?wnX?wtX?w
>  
> what am I doing wrong?  This worked before I installed the 
> above mentioned current?

    Actually, I fixed this problem by making xload suid kmem.  For some
reason it worked before being root.wheel 0755 on my system, I checked
out a Linux system and it was root.kmem 2755, so I tried that on my i386
box just for kicks, and it's been working since. 

                                                          Will Ferry

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