-rwxr-xr-x 1 root tty 154834 Feb 17 10:47 kvt
Now it gives me the following when I execute kvt on a existing terminal
within KDE:
kvt: could not chown /dev/ttyp6. Please check SUID bit.
any Idea
Chad Glendenin wrote:
>
> [ccg8@spork:/home/ccg8] ls -l `which kvt`
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104512 Feb 17 11:19 /opt/kde/bin/kvt*
>
> hmm, mine works fine and isn't suid root. i wish i could offer something
> more helpful than this, but it seems to me that this is the symptom of a
> bigger problem. does it give you an error message if you try to run a KVT
> without making it suid root? (assuming you can open an xterm or such, if
> not you could switch to a virtual console, set your DISPLAY, and launch it
> from there)
>
> -chad
>
> Harald Schwefel wrote:
> >
> > Hi I am running KDE 1.1 and every time I reboot my system and start the
> > Xserver I have to go get root and change the set user id of kvt to root
> > otherwise no terminal starts. Why does the program 'forgets' that info
> > when I reboot?
> >
> > thanks
> > harald
>
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