can access tty
well as some "customized" distros (using KDE) that came with our equipment. To say I'm impressed is an understatement, and I'm now looking to get linux onto an old laptop of...
into the Black Sun and said:
This is a weird error message. The shell should always be able to accessdev-tty , and it should always be able to accessdev-ttyN ordev-pts-N . Check the permissions ondev-tty anddev-pts (if you're working on an xterm or ssh session) ordev-tty0-7 (if you're working on a virtual console.)
The tty devices should be owned by group tty. dev-ptsshould be mounted at boot by one of the boot scripts. The command is like so on Gentoo:
mount -n -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=0620 devptsdev-pts
...Note that gid=5 is group tty here. Ifdev-pts doesn't show up in the output from mount, something's wrong unless you're on an embedded system withoutdev-pts support. (If that's the case, you should've said something.)
I need to install an app into CentOS that is checking to see if it is RedHat. The way it does its checks is via rpm; vendorstr=`rpm -q --queryformat '%{vendor}' rpm 2...
I think the problem is more fundamental than that. Ah well, check the permissions and see what you come up with. Another thing that may be causing problems for you is if you've managed to damage the terminfo database inetc-terminfoandetc-termcap , or if you've built an LFS system and somehow managed to avoid installing terminfo.
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