The following reply was made to PR pkg/30510; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@in-nomine.org>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30510: xterm utmp_update problem
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:40:20 +0200

 -On [20050615 15:12], Thomas Klausner (wiz@NetBSD.org) wrote:
 >Could you please take a look at this one and advise?
 
 It's not a part of xterm nor of X itself.
 
 It's part of NetBSD's sources:
 
 src/libexec/utmp_update/utmp_update.c
 
 110 (void)snprintf(tty, sizeof(tty), "%s%s", _PATH_DEV, utx->ut_line);
 111 fd = open(tty, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK, 0);
 112 if (fd != -1) {
 113         if (fstat(fd, &st) == -1)
 114                 err(1, "Cannot stat `%s'", tty);
 115         if (ruid != 0 && st.st_uid != ruid)
 116                 errx(1, "%s: Is not owned by you", tty);
 117         if (!isatty(fd))
 118                 errx(1, "%s: Not a tty device", tty);
 119         (void)close(fd);
 120         if (access(tty, W_OK|R_OK) == -1)
 121                 err(1, "%s", tty);
 
 In xterm I have:
 
 main.c:
 
 2693 set_owner(char *device, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mode)
 2694 {
 2695     if (chown(device, uid, gid) < 0) {
 2696         if (errno != ENOENT
 2697             && getuid() == 0) {
 2698             fprintf(stderr, "Cannot chown %s to %ld,%ld: %s\n",
 2699                     device, (long) uid, (long) gid, strerror(errno));
 2700         }
 2701     }
 2702     chmod(device, mode);
 2703 }
 
 What does your xtermcfg.h all contain after running bmake configure?
 
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