From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 02:44:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C842106566C for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:44:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from contact@awnex.org) Received: from smartmail.wwow.com (smartmail.wwow.com [205.209.44.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0544B8FC08 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [67.49.97.185] (cpe-67-49-97-185.socal.res.rr.com [67.49.97.185]) by smartmail.wwow.com with SMTP; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 20:29:08 -0600 Message-ID: <50723A87.2040703@awnex.org> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:29:27 -0700 From: "contact@awnex.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: AANLkTikmDxTdNAMb-=YEfAfRS0eP-ZwBBm+=ko5V4cQX@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: screen: Could not write /nonexistent X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 02:44:45 -0000 After reviewing the man page, if you use 'screen -ln' you will NOT see the error. It's a utmp log issue. Also, the reason why this happened to me is because chflags were set to: # chflags sappnd /var/log # chflags sappnd /var/log/* (Safe to keep this permission drwxr-x--- log 'which i have mine set to') To resolve make sure to set kern_securelevel="-1" in /etc/rc.conf (mine was set to kern_securelevel="2" you can not chflags at this level) # shutdown -r now Then # chflags nosappend /var/log # chflags nosappend /var/log/* change kern_securelevel back to whatever you want it at in /etc/rc.conf #shutdown -r now "fixed"