Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to > give it a try. > > When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. > > When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem. > > When I try to run it outside of X as a normal user, I get an error > about opening /dev/tty0 because of permission issues. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/tty0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 0 2007-03-07 10:04 /dev/tty0 > > I could change the group to "tty" or something and then add my normal > user into that group, but is there perhaps a > better/safer/more-canonical way?
Interesting. On my system: ls -l /dev/tty2 crw------- 1 amp77 tty 4, 2 2007-03-27 23:20 /dev/tty2 What are you running (stable, testing, ...?) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
