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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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