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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 17:00:41 CST

Lubos,
  Let me try eliminating the /dev/tty stuff from the msms command,
there's a reason we had to use this, but I have to admit that
it has slipped my mind since its been setup that way for so many
years. If it works acceptably without /dev/tty, then I can modify
the VMD source to avoid doing it that way.

  John

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:04:44PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > 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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