on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:09:18PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've just done a nightly upgrade on Sid. > > I, too. > > > I now cannot open a new terminal window, getting e.g.: > > > > $ rxvt > > rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty > > rxvt: aborting > > > > I can open a terminal as root, leading me to suspect a permissions > > error.
<...> > > Anyone else with data, or a devfsd.conf line for pts from an earlier > > version? > > I also run devfsd. Here's the relevant lines from my /etc/devfs/perms: > > REGISTER ^pts$ PERMISSIONS root.tty 0755 > REGISTER ^pty[^/]*$ PERMISSIONS root.tty 0666 Modifying my perms entries to include these values fixes the bug. > And from /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf: > > REGISTER ^pts/.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600 This doesn't appear to matter. Curious. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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