Bug 108782

Summary: mesg now complains, /usr/bin/write broken?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dax Kelson <dkelson>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Dax Kelson 2003-11-01 23:00:21 UTC 
Description of problem:

I've noticed this for the past few months, but only tracked it down
today. I have a fully up2date fedora test3 box.

I have "/usr/bin/mesg y" in my .bash_profile. I've had this for years,
starting at some point with the Fedora betas, when I open a terminal
window within GNOME, I get this message:

mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
[dkelson@mentor dkelson]$

The error message is true:

$ ls -al $(tty)
crw--w----    1 dkelson  dkelson  136,   7 Nov  1 15:58 /dev/pts/7

On a RHL9 box I get:

[dkelson@mooru dkelson]$ ls -al $(tty)
crw--w----    1 dkelson  tty      136,   0 Nov  1 16:00 /dev/pts/0

Since the "write" command is SGID tty, it is likely that it is broken.
I haven't tested it though.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
SysVinit-2.85-5
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-11-03 04:00:46 UTC 
Hm, perhaps gnome-pty-helper is behaving differently?
Comment 2 Dax Kelson 2003-11-20 04:31:23 UTC 
Fixed in initscripts-7.42.1-1.