From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 5 18:52:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA23668 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 18:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23662 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 18:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA13854; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:45:35 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606060215.LAA13854@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:45:35 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606051437.KAA09887@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Jun 5, 96 10:37:11 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kaleb S. KEITHLEY stands accused of saying: > > > >There's another problem with xterm not being able to get a pty > >that I'll have to look into. > > Same problem. The permissions on the ptys, i.e. /dev/ptyp? don't > have group or other write permission, causing the open in xterm > to fail. Something must have gone wrong with the installation/upgrade procedure. Virgin-installed SNAP systems don't have any problems with device permissions. (I've done dozens of installs with it so far) > Kaleb KEITHLEY -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[