Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:40:25 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP Message-ID: <199606051640.MAA10064@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 05 Jun 1996 18:46:48 EST. <199606051446.SAA00383@astral.msk.su>
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Thanks for the tips Andrey. > > > > Throwing caution to the wind I've just overwritten my 2.1R system > > with the 2.2-960501-SNAP. > > > > Things I note thus far: > > > > # ls -l /dev/tty > > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1, 0 5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty > > > > really wants to be: > > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 1, 0 5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty > > > > otherwise xterm cannot open it. Breaking xterm is a Bad Thing (tm). > > Something is wrong, but not in 2.2 source. From 2.2 MAKEDEV: > mknod tty c 1 0; chmod 666 tty; chown root.wheel tty > It seems that something wrong happens with distribution making. Yup, that's not the way they came out of the tar file. I used --unlink to remove the 2.1 files before extracting the SNAP version. > > > > Also, now when I try to `vipw` I get this error: > > # vipw > > vipw: /stand/ee: Undefined error: 0 > > vipw: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > > > > There is no /stand/ee. Obviously this was not a problem in 2.1R. > > Your EDITOR env. somehow points to /stand/ee, change it > to your editor. Yup, /.cshrc is the culprit. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY
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