[Sunhelp] strange things happening, grantpt failed

[Kalusniak, Jeff]

Your /dev/kmem is only accessible by root and top can only be run as root.
You have a couple of choices.....

1) Less Secure - chmod /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:kmem (linked to by /dev/kmem) to
allow others access.
2) More Secure - Install sudo and set up top access for specific
users/groups
3) Most Secure - Leave as is and only allow root usage.

These are the scenarios as I understand them.  Others my have better
insight.  In house, I use all 3 methods depending on the box.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Haiko Steuer [mailto:haiko at physik.tu-berlin.de]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:32 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [Sunhelp] strange things happening, grantpt failed


Hello,

I have some strange problems with my sparc (SUN OS 5.5.1).

First NIS was not working because rpc did not start. The reason was a
missing executable permission for /usr/sbin/rpcbind. So I wondered
about and changed that. Now I can log in as user again, but ...

top is not working 
top: cannot open /dev/kmem: Permission denied
kvm_open: Permission denied 

openwin comes up with the message 
fbconsole: grantpt failed

  I am not able to get any terminal, receiving instead messages like
  xterm: Error 1, errno 13: Permission denied
   or
  grantpt: No such file or directory
  XView error: NULL pointer passed to xv_set 

  other programs (xload, file manager, ...) are displayed very well

What is happening here ? 
Any ideas ?


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      mailto:haiko at physik.tu-berlin.de  
  http://wwwitp.physik.tu-berlin.de/~haiko/
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