I've recently encountered the following problem on my potato system. I decided to try to run biff and see what it was like. When attempting to run it, though, I receive:
ethereal:~> biff y /dev/ttyp2: Operation not permitted Exit 1 As I understand it, the /dev/ttyp devices are supposed to be chowned to the user who logs in under them? Mine aren't. The permissions on all are as follows: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 2 Jan 7 23:36 /dev/ttyp2 According to strace, both biff and mesg fail in chmod calls, thus increasing the likelihood of my problems being caused by the lack of chowning. Can anyone possibly point me in the right direction? This problem confuses me. Also, please CC me with any replies; I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks.
