[NCLUG] error message

Sean Reifschneider jafo-nclug at tummy.com
Mon Aug 6 00:46:55 MDT 2001


On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:29:04PM -0600, Kennan Blehm wrote:
>[kmblehm at anvar kmblehm]$ top
>The /proc library is not secure for setuid operation.[kmblehm at anvar kmblehm]$

Sounds like your top is set SUID.  Try doing "chmod 555 /usr/bin/top".

   guin:qmscan$ ls -l /usr/bin/top
   -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root          34k Apr  5 07:54 /usr/bin/top*


Sean
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