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Re: [TCLUG:21905] screen & nfs



What are the perms on your tty* devices?

Screen is always installed SUID, IIRC.

Gabe

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:18:02PM -0500, Adam Maloney wrote:
> I upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17 after reading that NFS is very broken for
> cross-platform mounting in <=2.2.14.  When I recompiled the kernel I
> turned on unix98 PTY's and support for /dev/pts.  Now when I run screen it
> gives me an error telling me that I need to be connected to a terminal.  A
> who shows me logged in on tty2.  If I su to root and run screen it works
> fine, no complaints.  Screen is SUID on this box though.
> 
> What's it's problem?
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
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