From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 14:29:58 EST
we prefer to make nmon suid, rather than change permissions on kmem
(which was someon's suggestion here...shudder)
John F Riordan wrote:
>I have been running nmon open to the users for a couple of years. However,
>the only other users other than Unix Admins that even drop to the command
>prompt are Oracle and SAP dba's.
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>It has been helpful to them when they have questions on performance etc..
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>John
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>John Riordan
>Unix Systems Administrator
>CSC / Bath Iron Works
>Bath, Maine
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>207.442.1094
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>We are having a debate about the wisdom of setting the necessary
>permissions (chmod ugo+r /dev/kmem) in order to allow users to run nmon.
>One point of view is that this is dangerous; another point of view is that
>it is not.
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>I thought it might be interesting to see what the collective wisdom of this
>mailing list has to offer - thanks for any / all opinions!
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>Jane Mandeville
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