Re: Gnome Terminal Disappears-- Solved!!

[James G Smith <jsmith jamesmith com>]

"1stFlight !" <1stflight@donet.com> wrote:
>Okay if I'm reading that right and your problem is the same as mine, what you
>can do is change your /etc/fstab   devpts  line to a different group id (gid)
>. Changing it to user might work but I've no idea of any security concerns
>that might arise. Best Luck.

Thanks for the idea.  Unfortunately, /etc/fstab has no such line in OpenBSD.
Besides, xterm, rxvt, and eterm don't need such changes.  I tried running
gnome-terminal suid root, but no change in behavior.  Maybe someone could
explain why gnome-terminal needs the ownership on the ttys set to a 
particular group when the other terminal emulators do not.

The terminals I am currently using:
jgsmith@hex:/dev % ls -l /dev/*p{4,5,1,2,3}*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    6,   1 Dec 18 01:35 /dev/ptyp1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    6,   2 Dec 19 12:43 /dev/ptyp2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    6,   3 Dec 19 12:40 /dev/ptyp3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    6,   4 Dec 19 12:44 /dev/ptyp4
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    6,   5 Dec 18 01:35 /dev/ptyp5
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    5,   1 Dec 19 12:40 /dev/ttyp1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    5,   2 Dec 19 12:43 /dev/ttyp2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    5,   3 Dec 19 12:40 /dev/ttyp3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root     wheel    5,   4 Dec 19 12:44 /dev/ttyp4
crw--w----  1 jgsmith  tty      5,   5 Dec 18 01:35 /dev/ttyp5
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James Smith <jsmith@jamesmith.com>