From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 31 13:19:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25430 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:19:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25338; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA05827; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:19:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Howard Goldstein cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SLIP - stupid TIOCSCTTY question In-Reply-To: <199803311948.OAA11862@bbs.mpcs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Howard Goldstein wrote: > : ``Operation not permitted'' is the magic phrase that says ``You must be > : root to do this.'' > > That's what my colleague who lives at the modem bank (free air > conditioning?) thought too, but it seems /sys/kern/tty.c is looking > for some other stuff. > > GRRRR turns out the problem is a conflict with owning processes. Fix > is to make sure there isn't a shell that thinks it owns it. Unlike > for ex pppd, slattach reasonably wants to be the one in charge of the > device. Ah, that makes sense. Shows how much I use SLIP. :-) > Thanks Doug No problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message