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Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?



Dne, 28. 10. 2009 16:46:47 je Klistvud napisal(a):
> Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a):
> > Klistvud wrote:
> > > Howdy, fellow Debianites,
> > >
> > > I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop 
> > > (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate
> > into /
> > > proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Commander). When I try to run
> > these 
> > > browsers with gksu or su, however, they never let me into /proc 
> --
> > if I 
> > > try to enter there, they just stop responding. Ideas, anyone?
> > >
> > >   
> > Try something like sudo emacs/vim/$EDITOR /proc/cpuinfo and see if
> it
> > works.
> > 
> > 
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> I don't have sudoers configured, but gksu vim /proc/cpuinfo opens the 
> file in vim instantly. I can of course access /proc easily from a 
> root
> 
> terminal too; it's just browsing/navigating with superuser 
> permissions
> 
> that hangs... 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Klistvud
> Certifiable Loonix User #481801
> 
> 
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Update: apparently, the browser doesn't really "freeze". I bumped into 
an instance of Gnome-Commander which I'd forgotten to kill, after 2-3 
hours, and it actually was displaying the contents of the /proc 
subtree. I clicked on a random subdir and it opened instantly. 
However, when I attempted to browse back to the parent level, Gnome-
Commander froze yet again...

-- 
Regards,

Klistvud
Certifiable Loonix User #481801


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