I noticed this problem recently, but don't have a clue about how to fix it. Whenever I try running mesg/biff/any program which requires access to /dev/ttyp*, I either receive error messages or no results at all. For example, with mesg: ethereal:~> mesg is y ethereal:~> mesg n ethereal:~> mesg is y Whenever I try biff, I receive: ethereal:~> biff y /dev/ttyp1: Operation not permitted Exit 1 The permissions on /dev/ttyp1 are: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 1 Jan 7 12:31 /dev/ttyp1 which as I understand it is wrong, since I should own the ttyp. In both cases, the programs fail in chmod calls, or at least, according to strace they do. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? I'm running Debian potato, and I grabbed the latest linux-utils/login, suspecting those two packages, but that hasn't helped. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
