Re: /dev/console : permission denied -- SOMEWHAT RESOLVED

2005-11-27 Thread Christopher McIntosh
enough time to get too deep into the code... I decided to do a fresh install. I completely removed Cygwin and re-installed using Henrik Bengtsson's Fantastic technique (http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/cygwin/). And the /dev/console : permission denied problem has faded into oblivion.

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:25:15PM -0600, Christopher McIntosh wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:15:28PM -0600, Christopher McIntosh wrote: >>>Dave Korn wrote: >SUMMARY: 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a >Cygwin shell (bash, sh, etc.

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher McIntosh
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:15:28PM -0600, Christopher McIntosh wrote: Dave Korn wrote: SUMMARY: 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a Cygwin shell (bash, sh, etc.); but is successful when executed within a CMD shell. Did you try removing '

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:15:28PM -0600, Christopher McIntosh wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>>SUMMARY: 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a >>>Cygwin shell (bash, sh, etc.); but is successful when executed within a >>>CMD shell. >> >>Did you try removing 'tty' from $CYGWIN ye

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher McIntosh
Dave Korn wrote: SUMMARY: 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a Cygwin shell (bash, sh, etc.); but is successful when executed within a CMD shell. Did you try removing 'tty' from $CYGWIN yet? Yes. 'cygcheck -svr' still crashes... -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher McIntosh
Dave Korn wrote: Must be syslogd then. Chris M, did you run the syslogd-config script or install it manually? I *did* use syslogd-config... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. I don't know about the cyg

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
g/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : >>>> permission denied. >>> >>> strace might be able to tell you that. >>> >>>> SUMMARY: 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a >>>> Cygwin

RE: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Taylor wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> Christopher McIntosh wrote: >>>> >>>>> Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first >>>>> reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. strace might be

RE: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> Christopher McIntosh wrote: >>> Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first >>> reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : >>> permission

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher McIntosh wrote: >>Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first >>reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : >>permission denied. > >strace might be able to te

RE: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher McIntosh wrote: > Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first > reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : > permission denied. strace might be able to tell you that. > SUMMARY: > 1. 'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an err

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Christopher McIntosh
rror to the event log as described in my previous email. However, no such problem is caused by running 'cygcheck -s' from the CMD.EXE shell. Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. On a

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Christopher McIntosh
Chris: Thanks for the tip about 'cygcheck -s -v -r' however, msvcrt.dll is reporting a problem while attempting to execute 'cygcheck -s'. Windows Event log shows: - snip - Faulting application cygcheck.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher McIntosh wrote: Chris: Thanks for your prompt response! Sorry for the lack of details... I've been running cygwin for about 5 years now and love it! However, I only recently began using syslogd (and therefore had not noticed the issue before). Running on WinXP Pro/SP2. 'cygc

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Christopher McIntosh
pp [main ()]:270 - Exiting main() Nov 22 01:20:17 machershell login : 2 LOGIN FAILURES ON tty1, Guest Nov 22 01:23:09 machershell init : open(/dev/console): Permission denied Nov 22 01:23:09 machershell init : PID 1356 : `init' service stopped, exit status: 0 Nov 22 01:23:12 machershel

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher McIntosh wrote: Hello cygwinites! In my /var/log/messages file (from syslogd), I find the following message: init : open(/dev/console): Permission denied this message appears whenever init is started or stopped. I've searched and searched but find no mention of it i

/dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Christopher McIntosh
Hello cygwinites! In my /var/log/messages file (from syslogd), I find the following message: init : open(/dev/console): Permission denied this message appears whenever init is started or stopped. I've searched and searched but find no mention of it in the newsgroups. Any insight will be