From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267457AbUHRSkD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:40:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267416AbUHRSkD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:40:03 -0400 Received: from ctb-mesg6.saix.net ([196.25.240.78]:62614 "EHLO ctb-mesg6.saix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267475AbUHRSjt (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:39:49 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems? From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer To: ismail =?ISO-8859-1?Q?d=F6nmez?= Cc: Paul Fulghum , Linux Kernel Mailing List , olh@suse.org, Greg KH In-Reply-To: <2a4f155d040817224449ef0874@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a4f155d040817070854931025@mail.gmail.com> <412247FF.5040301@microgate.com> <2a4f155d0408171116688a87f1@mail.gmail.com> <4122501B.7000106@microgate.com> <2a4f155d04081712005fdcdd9b@mail.gmail.com> <412272C8.6050203@microgate.com> <1092778561.8998.18.camel@nosferatu.lan> <2a4f155d040817224449ef0874@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ckwbaBo4E0AUXPIj/uoJ" Message-Id: <1092854584.8998.29.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:43:04 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-ckwbaBo4E0AUXPIj/uoJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 07:44, ismail d=C3=B6nmez wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer =20 > > He has the wrong permissions in > > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no > > entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very > > restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a > > display manager?), or add some other explanation. Personally I would > > just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped > > udev.permissions. >=20 > I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissio= ns : >=20 > # console devices > console:root:tty:0600 > tty:root:tty:0666 > tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660 > vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660 >=20 >=20 > But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is > a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this > will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a > character device. Greg can you please comment? >=20 --- # ls -l /dev/tty crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Aug 16 20:25 /dev/tty --- I think its something else - most likely a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules ? Could you post that (or /etc/udev/rules.conf or whatever file is applicable) ? --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-ckwbaBo4E0AUXPIj/uoJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBI6M4qburzKaJYLYRAlSKAJ9C/IiCZ1YMsiLapEXiEhKANhwiXACfX7PV xW6PTfQZLzCKSDmT+8P2idA= =Fge2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ckwbaBo4E0AUXPIj/uoJ--