Re: /dev/console : permission denied

[Chris Taylor <chris at equate dot dyndns dot org>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > Christopher McIntosh wrote:
> > >
> > > > Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first
> > > > reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) :
> > > > permission denied.
> > >
> > > strace might be able to tell you that.
> > >
> > >
> > > > SUMMARY: 1.  'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a
> > > > Cygwin shell (bash, sh, etc.); but is successful when executed within a
> > > > CMD shell.
> > >
> > > Did you try removing 'tty' from $CYGWIN yet?
> >
> > I don't know about the cygcheck error but the /dev/console problem
> > sounds like cygwin working as designed.  From the description, it
> > sounds like expected behavior to me.  Something is trying open
> > "/dev/console" when there is no console and is getting an error.
> >
> > Well, duh.
> >
> > cgf
>
>
>
>   Oh, you can't open it when there's not one bound?  Fair enough.  
>
>   Must be syslogd then.  Chris M, did you run the syslogd-config script or
> install it manually?
>
> Service             : syslogd
> Display name        : CYGWIN syslogd
> Current State       : Running
> Controls Accepted   : Stop
> Command             : /usr/sbin/syslogd -D
> stdin path          : /dev/null
> stdout path         : /var/log/syslogd.log
> stderr path         : /var/log/syslogd.log
> Process Type        : Own Process
> Startup             : Automatic
> Account             : LocalSystem
>
>   Hmm, looks right though.  (Interestingly enough both the config script and
> the cygwin-specific readme refer to an apparantly-bogus "-a" flag.  I'm on
> 1.3.2-29.)  Perhaps it's one of the destinations in syslog.conf that is the
> source of the problem then.  What's your syslog.conf look like?
>
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

I should point out that said error occurs when init starts.. But not as 
a result of anything else.. So could this instead be an issue with init? 
(I can replicate this problem, using syslogd-config and init-config to 
install the services, and starting them in that order).


Chris

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