Re: What does this mean...?

Thankyou, done works...  no longer get message   ;-)

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 10:34, Kristian Kvilekval wrote:
> You may have run zinf as root, and then it 
> crashed.   zinf uses a semaphore and a shared memory 
> segment to determine if there are any other instances running.
> 
>   Shutdown or kill all running instances of zinf (use ps to make
> sure you get them all).
> 
>   run "ipcs"
> $ ipcs
>  
> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
> key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
> 0xfb000001 1048583    kris      660        4096       0
> 
>   Remove any keys beginning with 0xfb00000X
> 
> $ ipcrm -m 1048583
> 
> Also check for semaphores...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 07:44, Larry Staberg wrote:
> > I'm running RedHat 9.0 and Kde 3.1..
> > 
> > The following message is printed out each time I start zinf..
> > 
> > -bash-2.05b$ zinf
> > Cannot create/open a semaphore. Is SYS V IPC installed?
> > 
> > This does not show up when I run zinf as root.. 
> > I think it's a privilege problem but where do I look?? 
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