no kmem on DEC 3100

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In article <10134 at mirsa.inria.fr>, cheryl at puce.inria.fr (Cheryl Stewart) writes:
> A friend of mine with a DEC 3100 has very recently gotten
> a very strange response to the "w" command:
> 
> 		no kmem

	The error message in the sources is "No kmem".  Spelling
	counts.  The error occurs if the open(2) on /dev/kmem
	fails.  So, if the file does indeed exist:

	1.  Make sure it's a special device file.

	2.  w(1) has read permission.  On V4.0 and later this
	    means that w(1) needs to run setgid and be in group
	    kmem.

> Please direct responses to cheryl at puce.inria.fr and dias at vala.unice.fr
> Thanks much!

	I'll try.


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Alan Rollow				alan at nabeth.cxn.dec.com