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

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] access to /proc/pid/maps
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:40:34 -0400
Cc: Martins Innus <minnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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.)

- FChE

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