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From: Lubos Vrbka (shnek_at_chemi.muni.cz)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 11:04:44 CST

> Interesting, any particular reason you lack the /dev/tty device or
> don't have write permission???
permissions and presence aren't problem...
$ ls -la /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 1, 0 Mar 7 15:13 /dev/tty
btw, i think that /dev/tty is the main system console (X is flushing its
output there and i/m not sure whether it's then accessible by other
processes; i could make msms suid root, but it's not safe and i don't want
to do it if it isn't totally necessary)

> You're using Linux right? Which distribution?
> (Its normally used to echo text to stdout...)
i'm using netbsd 1.6 (stable release), msms binary is linux, but works fine
as i have linux emulation (even the vmd binary (mesa) is linux and works
fine under emulation)

i don't understand your comment "(Its normally used to echo text to
stdout...)" - what's the purpose of the command
msms -no_area -socketPort 1357 > /dev/tty &

i think -socketPort is a port where msms communicates with vmd, but why are
you sending the output to /dev/tty? it's the vmd status terminal window
showing all the reports? then it should be ok to omit it, shouldn't it?
where can i specify this? could i send the output to /dev/null, too?

unfortunatelly, i don't have access to my unix computer now... so i cannot
try... :o(

regard,
lubos

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Lubos Vrbka
National Centre for Biomolecular Research
Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

shnek_at_chemi.muni.cz
http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
tel. +420 541 129 508
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