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From: ZRFL@DS0RUS1I.BITNET ("Heinz W. Poehlmann")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
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Date: 25 Jan 89 19:33:42 GMT
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Hello folks,
thanks all for your help concerning the Personal IRIS normal user account
login problem from the console.  All the hints lead me to look into the
/dev Directory and to the solution of the problem.  Since on one Personal
IRIS it's working correctly, I could compare the file protections by hand.
What I found is, that running the MAKEDEV - commandfile in the /dev - Dir
doesn't change some of the protections correctly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So be careful running MAKEDEV !!!! I did it because I had to insert a
cartridge tape drive into a Personal Iris.  So here are the "repairing"-
commands :
chmod 644 /dev/g*
chmod 755 /dev/grin /dev/gro
chmod 666 /dev/tt*
chmod 666 /dev/mouse
chmod 666 /dev/de*
I hope this helps avoiding future problems out somewhere.  Perhaps
some of you from Silicon Graphics will read this leaflet and improve
those things !                                          ...Heinz
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Heinz Poehlmann - Computer Center University of Stuttgart
BITNET : ZRFL at DS0RUS1I
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