On Jul 3,  9:23pm, gary@duzan.org (Gary Duzan) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: xterm tty ownership

| 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

The ? is the real tty letter I take it [0-9a-f];

| -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.

That all looks fine, but what is the permission of the pty before xterm
opens it?

christos