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Date:      Wed, 05 Jun 1996 23:12:44 +0000
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@munich.netsurf.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP 
Message-ID:  <199606052312.XAA13547@peedub.gj.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:40:25 EST." <199606051640.MAA10064@exalt.x.org> 

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"Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" writes:
>> > Throwing caution to the wind I've just overwritten my 2.1R system 
>> > with the 2.2-960501-SNAP.
>> > 
>> > Things I note thus far:
>> > 
>> > # ls -l /dev/tty
>> > crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    1,   0  5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty
>> > 
>> > really wants to be:
>> > 
>> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    1,   0  5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty
>> > 
>> > otherwise xterm cannot open it. Breaking xterm is a Bad Thing (tm).

xterm is supposed to be suid root so that can make a utmp entry. At least,
it is on all the systems I have access to.

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Gary Jennejohn
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