On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, alex medvedev wrote:
what are these devices?
Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes.
are the permissions ok? crw-rw---- 1 root disk 96, 0 Apr 30 1999 pt0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 96, 1 Apr 30 1999 pt1 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 96, 2 Apr 30 1999 pt2 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 96, 3 Apr 30 1999 pt3 is it related to my "only root can run xterm" problem?
Excuse me, not pt[0-9] but the contents of /dev/pts is important. In my case it looks like this: ls -al /dev/pts /dev/pty* total 31 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 31 11:32 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 30720 Feb 11 14:51 .. crw--w---- 1 peter tty 136, 0 Feb 14 16:33 0 . . . crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 176 Dec 6 23:26 /dev/ptya0 . . . I hope, this helps. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Münster **** Brittany **** France URL: http://gmv.spm.univ-rennes1.fr/~peter/