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Re: [pcp] access to /proc/pid/maps

To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] access to /proc/pid/maps
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:52:01 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Martins Innus <minnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Reply-to: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: access to /proc/pid/maps

----- Original Message -----
> Hi -
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:27:38PM -0400, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 
> > [...]  You would need to allow pmlogger (which runs as "pcp" user)
> > to authenticate as "root" if you'd like to be able to query values
> > (and record) all processes. [...]
> 
> (Or arrange to run a pmlogger instance as root.  Running as pcp
> is only an rc.d/crontab-driven-pmlogger default.)

Yep, good point.

--
Nathan

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