swimmy Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Ok, I've searched this site for any help but I can't find much about these commands. When I try to write to someone using write, i get the following [swimmy@mattr swimmy]$ write <user_on_my_system> write: you have write permission turned off. So I searched on how to turn them on and found out that I need to run mesg y here are my results... [swimmy@mattr swimmy]$ mesg y mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty' I haven't been able to find anything from googling the error which addresses this. I have done nothing to the tty device and don't know why tty isn't owned by group tty. I tried to run talk. and it spits out an error...that the connection is refused the talk daemon refused connection turns out I'm not running hte talk daemon so I looked to see how to get it running since talkd wasn't working even under su. I found a link that said to run this... service talk start talk is a xinetd service Reloading configuration: [ OK ] Initially I received an error and had to execute chkconfig talk and then ran the above cmd to get that output. I still can't use the talk command, write command, or turn messages on with mesg y Any help would be great. Don't ask me why I want these to be available, as I can provide no rational explanation. Thank you for your courtesies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Assuming you are using udev instead of devfs, look in /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-udev.permissions and make sure you have a section near the top that says this: console:root:root:0600 tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660 vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmy Posted March 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 This is what my /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-udev.permissions looks like #------------------------------- # console devices console:root:root:0600 tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660 vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660 #------------------------------- # pty devices # Set this to 0660 if you only want users belonging to tty group # to be able to allocate PTYs ptmx:root:tty:0666 tty:root:tty:0666 pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*:root:tty:0660 tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*:root:tty:0660 pty/m*:root:tty:0660 vc/s*:root:tty:0660 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 That's what mine looks like. I can use 'write' but I can't use 'talk'. I get the same error you do when I run mesg y perplexing. And I know how it is wanting something to work that you really have no reason for needing it to work....maybe you can mosey on over and help me with my 'lynx browser' question on that note... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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