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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] What is wrong with /dev/tty and /dev/com[01] ?
References: <1993Oct13.121947.19474@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1993Oct19.162634.28220@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <2a1ffc$pgg@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
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In article <2a1ffc$pgg@mail.fwi.uva.nl> vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes:
>crw-rw-rw-    1 root     wheel      1,   0 Oct 19 20:24 /dev/tty

If your /dev/tty is instead crw-r--r-- this may be due to having
unpacked the system by hand with a umask of 022.

-- Richard

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