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- From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
- Subject: Re: /dev/ttyp* modes and openwindows
- In-Reply-To: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jan 93 21:52:57 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:48:46 GMT
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- On Wed, 20 Jan 93 21:52:57 GMT, pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) said:
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- > I've seen this problem several times over the last couple of
- > years of administering Suns of various types. It seems to be
- > getting to be more of a concern with the newer SunOS (4.1.2 and
- > 4.1.3), where /etc/rc has a chmod 644 /dev/tty[pqrs]*.
-
- > Whenever ttyp* is mode 644, and someone starts OpenWindows,
- > they cannot open any shell or command tools. If I go in and
- > chmod 666 /dev/ttyp*, it works fine. Obviously, the problem
- > is that the windows can't write the device unless ownership is
- > changed or the mode is 666.
-
- In our /etc/rc file, we have chmod 666 not 644. This is the way it was when I
- upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.1.3. I don't know how yours got changed to 644 but
- I would just change it back to 666.
-
- John
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