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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:19:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SLIP - stupid TIOCSCTTY question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331131835.5798G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803311948.OAA11862@bbs.mpcs.com>

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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



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