Re: chownpty, kbuildsyscocoa

On Monday 13 December 2004 12:29 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2004 18:15, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > I am getting  the error messeges below when I run
> > startkde. There is no chownpty  in openbsd. How
> > do I correct this apparent security problem?
> >
> > kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: chownpty failed for device
> > /dev/ptyp0::/dev/ttyp0 This means the communication can be eavesdropped.
> > kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: chownpty failed for device
> > /dev/ptyp1::/dev/ttyp1 This means the communication can be eavesdropped.
>
> Post it to kde-core-devel, preferably with pointers to some docu on how
> pty's work in openbsd.
>
> > Also, what is kbuildsyscocoa (as in "running kbuildsyscocoa...", which
> > also shows up in the log)?
>
> It's a tool that builds the ksycoca database. See
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/ksycoca.html
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

Thanks Waldo. 

Here is a  pointer to the openbsd man page on pty.
I've read it but I still don't understand it.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pty&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html