su & screen bite each other

[Folkert van Heusden]

Hi,

Situation: as root-user I start a quake server in screen under an
other user. Now when I become that user and do screen -r, I get an
error:

mauer:/# /bin/su - quake -c /usr/local/games/Quake/bin/start_qw2

and the /usr/local/games/Quake/bin/start_qw2 script contains:
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#! /bin/sh

cd /usr/local/games/Quake/bin

/usr/bin/screen -d -m -S 'QuakeWorld' ./mvdsv
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Now when I do the following:
mauer:/# su - quake
address@hidden:~$ screen -r QuakeWorld
Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/28' - please check.
address@hidden:~$ ls -l /dev/pts/28
crw--w---- 1 folkert tty 136, 28 2008-11-20 19:58 /dev/pts/28

what can it be?


Folkert van Heusden

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