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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!csd.unb.ca!b6ps From: b6ps@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Peter Howlett) Subject: Re: [netbsd 0.9] terminal on com ports Message-ID: <1993Oct18.154054.27641@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> Organization: University of New Brunswick References: <2956kr$bm5@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Oct13.121947.19474@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <wmbfmk.750607495@rwc.urc.tue.nl> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 15:40:54 GMT Lines: 25 In article <wmbfmk.750607495@rwc.urc.tue.nl> wmbfmk@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) writes: >But, I have 'mesg y' and 'biff y' in my .login and when they are >executed they give a message that I can't write to com0, but in my /etc/ttys >I specify tty00, so I should be using /dev/tty00 for the connection. >(BTW com0 is a link to tty00) >As a result of this, I think, I can also not see myself >with 'w' when I'm logged in via the dialup. > >It seems like there's something structurally wrong, or not? > For what it's worth, I have this problem (sort of) as well. When I use a dialup line defined on com0, I get logged in with tty00. Of course this means that com0 still has only rw perms for root so mesg y and so on wont work if they dont know I'm on tty00. I also do not show up in the utmp file (I do however, show up in wtmp). Why do I get logged in with tty00 instead of com0 (as listed in ttys)? Got me--- ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Howlett University of New Brunswick Inet: b6ps@jupiter.csd.unb.ca