Re: /dev mangled

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

We found for devices you need to run umask 000
before untarring the tar ball. Try it.

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 04:59:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> I manged to kill off much of my /dev directory. I restored it from a
> tarball made on a different RH 7.0 machine. The system pretty much
> works. I can see two problems (so far).
> 
> 1) When I launch an xterm for a user other than the one running X, I
> get the following error:
> 
> ccurley@charlesc $ xterm &
> [9] 1592
> ccurley@charlesc $ xterm: no available ptys: Permission denied
>  
> [9]+  Done(32)                xterm
> ccurley@charlesc $
> 
> xhosts has been set to accept from charlesc, so that is not the
> problem.
> 
> 2) A lot of the files in /dev fail the rpm -Vp test, with M the
> offending test:
> 
> ...
> .M......   /dev/zqft2
> .M......   /dev/zqft3
> 
> M stands for: "Mode (includes permissions and file type)". How can I
> determine what the correct permissions & types are?
> 
> -- 
> 
> 		-- C^2
> 
> No windows were crashed in the making of this email.
> 
> Looking for fine software and/or web pages?
> http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley



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