[gridengine users] Problem with terminal emulation and QLOGIN

[Reuti]

Hi,

Am 24.02.2011 um 22:26 schrieb Aaron Goodman:

> I've recently run into two issues with terminal emulation under qlogin and qrsh. One has to do with control characters, the other with running screen.
> 
> Control Characters:
> It seems that some control characters are not passed properly to the terminal. Particularly, C-q does not seem to get passed through, though most other control characters do. 
> 
> Screen:
> If I run screen I get:
> Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/1' - please check.
> 
> If I do a ls -l /dev/pts/1 I see
> crw--w---- 1 root    tty 136, 1 Feb 24 14:35 1
> 
> Any help on these issues would be appreciated.

just for curiosity: how do you know that it's C-q?

The problem is a known issue, that the owner of the character device is root and not the user. You can change it (by hand per session) and it will work, although I'm not sure whether this is advisable as you might oversubscribe the granted slot count.

-- Reuti