/dev/pts/* files not group tty

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.

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):

Code:

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#!/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):

Code:

---

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

---

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

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

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