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Jim,<br>
<br>
As always.... thanks for your reply.<br>
<br>
You were correct that kvm was apparently attempting to write to
/proc~. <br>
<br>
The puzzle for me is that... there is no /proc/~/mem to which to
write, but... apparently this is not permissible by design, as I'm
not allowed to change /proc's 555 permissions. <br>
<br>
Can /proc's permissions be changed from 555 to, say, 755, and if so
how; for when I attempt this I get the error that "this is not
supported" ? I must say, though, that /proc is the only subdir in
it's dir whose permissions are not set 755. <br>
<br>
More mystifyingly... there are other entries that ARE written to in
/proc's subdirs. Huh ? I assumed, apparently wrongly, that if a
dir's permissions disallowed writing, then it's subdirs would also
not allow writing.<br>
<br>
I am also disallowed from changing proc's 'chown'. <br>
<br>
Finally, when I - cat /proc/version - I get that Linux is version
2.6.16. Does this tell you anything ?<br>
<br>
Bedazzled and befuddled, as usual :-)<br>
<br>
Courtney <br>
<br>
<br>
On 02/06/12 19:27, Jim Kinney wrote:
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cite="mid:CAEo=5Pzs2=5VOu6fkRwnNa0k8m90RQQmjLruA6aaOzyOA=N-+Q@mail.gmail.com"
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<p>The first looks like kvm thinks it should be doing something.
If you aren't running a kvm based server, disable kvm.<br>
The sendmail issue os literally the daemon can't write the file.
Either disk full or permission error. For unknown reasons
sometimes the var/mail becomes not gtoup writeable. A perm
change fixed it and it didn't reappear. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 6, 2012 1:13 PM, "Courtney Thomas"
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What is the significance of this error which is regularly
appearing in<br>
/var/log/messages along with.....<br>
<br>
kvm_getenvv<br>
<br>
failed ?<br>
<br>
This is apparently aroused by gnome's "console-kit-daemon"<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
I'm also getting what I assume is a sendmail complaint as
follows:<br>
<br>
sm-mta cannot write .q###############: permission denied.<br>
<br>
How can I resolve this as well, pleasely,<br>
<br>
C.Thomas<br>
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