[ale] ttyp0: Operation not permitted

[rhiannen]

Ok, after extending my personal curses vocabulary over Mandrake
8.0/8.1 (long story best left for a separate post) on my IBM 600x
(lappie), I decided to go w/my old favorite Slackware instead. 

Got everything up & running in Slack 8.0, just have one irritating,
but seemingly harmless annoyance:  When attempting to run Eterm in
Enlightenment (0.16.5) as a normal user, it opens, but it gives the
error:
 " /dev/ttyp0: Operation not permitted " (or ttyp1, ttyp2, etc.,
etc.)  
There doesn't seem to be any problem executing any commands, just the
annoying message.  

I can't seem to find a relevant post Answering this on the 'net -
well, not in any language any of my systems support, anyway.

  Eterm --debug doesn't seem to provide any explanation as to why or
what operation isn't permitted.
  Changing the permissions on /dev/tty* doesn't effect the error -
even if set to the insanely unsafe 777 - same w/changing permissions
on eterm itself. (Yes, permissions are back again to a saner level
<g>)
  Error happens only when logged in X as user, not as root.
  Error doesn't appear to be etheme related - happens in every one
I've tried.
  The user is (now) member of root, wheel, bin, tty, & user groups
(been working on this a while, ok? <g>).
  kernel is 2.2.19, if that helps.

I know some of that is most likely completely irrelevant, but very
possibly I'm missing something completely obvious...

Odd thing, I can't seem to find any pertinent (non-hardware related)
difference between my desktop Slack install & the laptop - except that
the desktop does Not have the same problem. (been running Slack on my
desktop since 4, recently upgraded some hardware & decided to give it
a fresh clean install to 8 from the same install CD I just used for
the laptop)

Any ideas on 
a.) what is causing the error message, & 
b.) how to make the error go away?  


-- 
rhia
knowledge is power - arm yourself

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