From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 07:58:03 +0000 Subject: Re: /dev/tty now a directory so can't ssh out anywhere Message-Id: <20040905075803.GA10292@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:30:59AM -0400, jnf wrote: > When I first switched over to udev I had similar problems- mainly because > I wasn't aware, so I suppose its an ignorance thing on my part. But some > of these things are kind've sane to have, for instance, /dev/null should > probably be writeable, probably need permissions to ptmx, etc. > > Just out of curiousity, Greg, is there a particular reason that udev comes > like this? I'd imagine some things would be more or less portable amongst > the distro's. Just something I have been wondering for a while. It's up to the distros to set this information up correctly as they all have different groups and need different permissions for those groups :( I track the gentoo rules and permissions in the main udev package, and I'd gladly add the other distro's files if they would send them to me. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idP47&alloc_id808&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel