On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:18:20AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:40:09AM +0100, Roman Bertle wrote: > > Package: xterm > > Version: 208-3.1 > > Severity: minor > > > > Hello, > > > > since my last system upgrade, if I open a xterm a warning message is > > written: > > That more than likely indicates a problem with your configuration than > xterm (of course it could be the package). > > > mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty' > > On my system for instance, xterm is setgid to utmp. Perhaps these (xterm) > changelog entries are related to your problem: > > Patch #206 - 2005/11/3 - XFree86 4.5.99.15 > > * modify Imakefile to use setgid mode for installing with Linux, > OpenBSD and FreeBSD. > * add configure --with-setuid and --with-reference options to allow > packagers more flexibility in customizing install permissions. > * generalize and make optional (configure --with-utmp-setgid) the > change made for XFree86 Bugzilla #878 in [219]patch #205 (FreeBSD > bug report #ports/86663).
Hrm, regarding your fix in xterm 210, I'm not sure if this will work entirely. On my system, I have some tty's owned by group root and others by group tty. Won't setting the tty group with the --with-tty-group only work for one set of these tty's, but not the other? - David Nusinow, who hasn't yet reproduced this on his system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
