On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:46:26PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > The latest sysvinit package complains if you run "mesg y" while the tty > device is not group "tty". > > Using unix98 PTY support with devfs on kernel 2.4.6 results in pseudo-tty > devices being created with the primary group of the user. > > What does devpts without devfs give on recent kernels? $ tty /dev/pts/1 $ ls -l `tty` crw--w---- 1 eb tty 136, 1 Jul 31 15:52 /dev/pts/1 $ grep DEVFS_FS /boot/config-2.4.7 # CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set $ mount | grep devpts devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) $ uname -sr Linux 2.4.7 devpts is mounted by /etc/init.d/devpts.sh, unchanged by me. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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