--- John Meagher <jmeagher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am really baffled as to why a script of mine won't work. I used it
> with RH
> > 8.0 and now when I try it with 9.0 my boot.log shows a /dev/tty12
> permission
> > denied error. I have NO idea why I would be getting this. The script
> is as
> > follows:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #chkconfig: 345 99 99
> > #description: Start | Stop | Restart | (Check the) Status of the FAH
> Linux
> > cons
> > ole client
> > source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
> > FAH="/home/mcdougrs/folding/FAH3Console-Linux.exe"
> > cd /home/mcdougrs/folding/ >/dev/tty12
> > RETVAL=1
> > case "$1" in
> > start)
> > echo -n "Starting Folding@Home client ... "
> > su mcdougrs -c "$FAH >/dev/tty12 &"
> > RETVAL=$?
> > ;;
> > stop)
> > echo -n "Stopping Folding@Home's FAH3Console-Linux.exe
> ... "
> > killproc FAH3Console-Linux.exe
> > RETVAL=$?
> > ;;
> > restart)
> > $0 stop
> > /usr/bin/sleep 1
> > $0 start
> > RETVAL=$?
> > ;;
> > status)
> > status FAH3Console-Linux.exe
> > RETVAL=$?
> > ;;
> > *)
> > echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
> > exit 1
> > ;;
> > esac
> > exit $RETVAL
> >
> What are the permissions on the script?
>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 995 Oct 14 15:00 folding
I did find a work around but I don't like how it is done, so if we can find an
"official" way that would be great. The work around was to add user mcdougrs to
the tty group.
The permissions of the tty12 are:
crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 12 Oct 14 16:02 tty12
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