Re: [dwm] st

From: John Gosset <john.gosset_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:46:00 -0400

I'm unable to run as either root or non-root user (member of the tty
group); still getting the same error message... this probably means
the stock Arch kernel doesn't support BSD pseudo-terminals.

John

On 8/9/06, John Norton <johnn_AT_smu.edu> wrote:
> On 22:42 Tue 08 Aug , Kurt Maier wrote:
> > If you're running udev, make sure to add yourself to the tty group.
> >
> > Kurt
> >
>
> See, I just did that, but it did not help. I have noticed, while
> digging through /dev that I am currently using terminals /dev/pts/*
> which are owned by me (user) with group tty, while the ptyxx and ttyxx
> terms are owned by root, with group tty and permissions crw-rw----.
> What would be the proper way to solve this? Should I chmod some ptyxx's
> and ttyxx's? I doubt this is what I _really_ should do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jack
>
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