Subject: Re: xterm tty ownership
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Gary Duzan <gary@duzan.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/2007 21:23:31
In Message <f6dt3m$jnj$1@sea.gmane.org> ,
   christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

=>In article <200707031140.l63BeOUo028090@wheel.duzan.org>,
=>Gary Duzan  <gary@duzan.org> wrote:
=>>   For a couple weeks I've been getting:
=>>
=>>utmp_update: /dev/ttyp?: Is not owned by you
=>>
=>>every time I open an xterm. ls shows:
=>>
=>>crw--w----  1 user  tty  5, ? Jul  3 07:32 /dev/ttyp?
=>>
=>>If I ssh into the box, the ownership is set properly.
=>>
=>
=>What are the permissions of xterm, utmp_update?

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  351522 Jul  1 13:09 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm*
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11702 Jul  1 12:01 /usr/libexec/utmp_update*

=>Did you compile your kernel with COMPAT_BSDPTY?

options		COMPAT_BSDPTY	# /dev/[pt]ty?? ptys.

=>ls -l /dev/ptm*

crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  165, 1 Dec  8  2004 /dev/ptm
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  165, 0 Dec  8  2004 /dev/ptmx

   If it helps, I am running with one big LFS for everything, I
have some debugging turned on in the kernel, and I'm running amd64.

   Thanks.

					Gary Duzan