X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: /dev/console : permission denied Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:13:29 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <438747A9.50701@equate.dyndns.org> Message-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Chris Taylor wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> Christopher McIntosh wrote: >>>> >>>>> Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first >>>>> reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : >>>>> permission denied. >>> I don't know about the cygcheck error but the /dev/console problem >>> sounds like cygwin working as designed. From the description, it >>> sounds like expected behavior to me. Something is trying open >>> "/dev/console" when there is no console and is getting an error. >>> >>> Well, duh. >>> >>> cgf >> Oh, you can't open it when there's not one bound? Fair enough. >> >> Must be syslogd then. Chris M, did you run the syslogd-config script >> or install it manually? >> 1.3.2-29.) Perhaps it's one of the destinations in syslog.conf that is >> the source of the problem then. What's your syslog.conf look like? > I should point out that said error occurs when init starts.. But not as > a result of anything else.. So could this instead be an issue with init? > > (I can replicate this problem, using syslogd-config and init-config to > install the services, and starting them in that order). Oh look, so can I! I also see a bunch of other errors: can't open(/etc/ioctl.save, O_WRONLY): Permission denied. can't open /dev/console. cannot execute "/etc/rc". ...which makes sense, because: dk@espanola /artimi/arch/doc> ls -la /etc/rc /etc/ioctl.save -rw------- 1 dk Domain Users 44 Nov 25 17:38 /etc/ioctl.save -rw-r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 65 Nov 25 17:49 /etc/rc dk@espanola /artimi/arch/doc> I have no idea what ioctl.save is, but /etc/rc should definitely have the 'x' bit set. I fixed both these problems with "chmod u+x /etc/rc" and "chown SYSTEM /etc/ioctl.save"; despite the fact that I told init-config to overwrite both these files, it didn't set the perms, so that could almost certainly be considered a bug in init-config. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/