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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] What is wrong with /dev/tty and /dev/com[01] ? References: <1993Oct13.121947.19474@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1993Oct19.162634.28220@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <2a1ffc$pgg@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Message-ID: <CF7J53.2BL@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 17:55:49 GMT Lines: 13 In article <2a1ffc$pgg@mail.fwi.uva.nl> vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes: >crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 1, 0 Oct 19 20:24 /dev/tty If your /dev/tty is instead crw-r--r-- this may be due to having unpacked the system by hand with a umask of 022. -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough