/dev/console : permission denied

[Christopher McIntosh]

Chris:

Thanks for your prompt response!  Sorry for the lack of details...  I've 
been running cygwin for about 5 years now and love it!  However, I only 
recently began using syslogd (and therefore had not noticed the issue 
before).

Running on WinXP Pro/SP2.

'cygcheck -c cygwin' reports 1.5.18-1 (STATUS OK)

Specifically, 'cygcheck -c' reports OK for all 212 packages(?) which I 
have installed.

Performing 'ls -l /dev/console' reports:

crw-rw-rw- Chris PowerUsers   5, 1  Nov 24 05:54  /dev/console

So this seems good.  This is a stand-alone laptop (not a domain client).

I also attached my messages file, in case there is something useful 
there that hasn't caught my attention.

Thanks, again!
Chris


Chris Taylor wrote:
> Christopher McIntosh wrote:
> 
>> Hello cygwinites!
>>
>> In my /var/log/messages file (from syslogd), I find the following 
>> message:
>>
>> init : open(/dev/console): Permission denied
>>
>> this message appears whenever init is started or stopped.
>>
>> I've searched and searched but find no mention of it in the newsgroups.
>>
>> Any insight will be much appreciated!
>>
>> -Chris
>>
> 
> Well, withiout attempting to guess, I suggest you follow the 
> instructions here:
> 
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> 
> This will help people in figuring out exactly what is causing the problem.
> 
> As for a WAG.. Are you using a computer that is a member of a domain 
> perhaps?
> This can cause some permission errors..
> I'm pretty sure this was causing a problem for me..
> Check what ls -l /dev/console outputs...
> 
> Chris
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