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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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