Top utility

[Bruno Pina]

Hi,
I have one server ES40 running Tru64 version 5.1B.

I only can run top utility as root.

My top utility version is 3.4. Someone can tell me how to run top as another user?

Thanks.

[Steven Schweda]

Make sure (chown) that "root" owns the
executable, and set (chmod) its setuid bit?

[Steven Schweda]

Hey. Sure enough.

urtx> top
/dev/kmem: Permission denied

(Look! An actual command with an actual
error message! It _is_ possible!)

urtx> who am i
sms pts/2 Mar 12 12:03 (alp.antinode.org)

urtx> type top
top is /usr/local/bin/top

urtx# ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 322544 May 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/top

urtx# chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/top

urtx# ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root system 322544 May 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/top

urtx> top

load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00; 12:17:02
86 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping, 63 idle
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.8% system, 0.0% wio, 97.9% idle
Memory: 131M active, 1977M total, 1729M free
Swap: 8K in use, 3096M total
[...]

[Steven Schweda]

> My top utility version is 3.4.

Version 3.7 seems to be current.

http://www.unixtop.org/

Building it with a non-GCC compiler seems to
require some extra effort. (I gave up, and
did it the easy way.)

[Kapil Jha]

Hello ,
Aprt from what stevan has said , if u have sudo configured u can always do
sudo /usr/local/bin/top

;)

BR,
Kapil