/dev/pts/* files not group tty

[mzq]

Hello,

the files /dev/pts/* do not belong to group `tty'. The problem is, that some BSD tools like mesg, write and talk expect that.
Therefore "mesg y" does not work. (mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty')
After I did chgrp, everything was alright.
But after restarting, everything is as before. I think it has to do with udev.
Asking my best friend Google did not help.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I do not know whether this is the right place for this thread, but I'm running Gentoo.

[Cabhan]

If it's on a Gentoo box, this is the right forum .

If that makes it work, then make a new initscript. Save the following file as /etc/init.d/fix_tty (you need to be root):

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

start() {
    ebegin "Fixing TTY Ownership"
    chown tty /dev/pts/*
    eend $?
}

Then run (also as root):

chmod +x /etc/init.d/fix_tty
rc-update add fix_tty default

This will cause the script to run on startup every time.

[mzq]

Thank you very much for this answer.
But these pts files are created dynamically. That means that this script should run every time....

[Cabhan]

Ah. Touche. Well, I can find very little on Google to do this. Maybe someone else has an idea?