[ale] ttyp0: Operation not permitted

[Fulton Green]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:17:40PM -0500, rhiannen wrote:
> 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

I think I saw this a few times when I ran Eterm back in '98.

>   kernel is 2.2.19, if that helps.

This might be the clue. The 2.4 kernel changed something about the slave/
master paradigm w/r/t tty devices. It may be that Eterm is trying to open
up the tty device assuming the 2.4 paradigm. You should be able to change
it to the 2.2 way. It's either an Eterm menu selection or a command-line
switch documented in the man page.

Also see if any other terms (Konsole, GNOME Terminal, even xterm) suffer
from the same syndrome.

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