Jeff Bowden <jeffb@vulcan.com> writes: > Clearly there must be some weird interaction with something else on > the system. If I knew what was causing it, I would file a bug against > it :-) Permissions on /dev/tty, most likely; see makedev bug #245735 (which has already been fixed in unstable). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.