Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 07:44, ismail dÃnmez wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > He has the wrong permissions in
> > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no
> > entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very
> > restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a
> > display manager?), or add some other explanation.  Personally I would
> > just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped
> > udev.permissions.
> 
> I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions :
> 
> # console devices
> console:root:tty:0600
> tty:root:tty:0666
> tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> 
> 
> But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is
> a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this
> will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a
> character device. Greg can you please comment?
> 

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# ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty 5, 0 Aug 16 20:25 /dev/tty
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I think its something else - most likely a rule in
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules ?  Could you post that
(or /etc/udev/rules.conf or whatever file is applicable) ?


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Martin Schlemmer

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