Hello, Thanks for the reply! Here is the information requested below:
UNAME -A:
FreeBSD 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #0: Sun Apr 13 21:43:57 PDT 2003
LS -al:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel18432 Aug 28 03:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 1024 Apr 7 16:32 ..
crw-r- 1 root operator 13, 0x00030002 Sep 17 2002 da0s2c
crw-r- 2 root operator 13, 0x00030003 Sep 17 2002 da0s2d
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Sep 17 2002 log - /var/run/log
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Sep 17 2002 mouse - /dev/sysmouse
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 115 Aug 29 03:01 null
crw-r- 1 root operator 13, 0x00030001 Sep 17 2002 rda0s2b
crw-r- 2 root operator 13, 0x00030003 Sep 17 2002 rda0s2d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel0 Aug 29 03:01 stderr
MOUNT | GREP dev:
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local)
/dev/da0s2h on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s2e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s2f on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s2g on /var/tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
Any ideas? Can I somehow restore the missing files? What could cause this? I am
certain I did not do it; no one else has root. Thank you.
- Original Message
From: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; babak badaei [EMAIL
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:14:40 AM
Subject: Re: What could cause /DEV to clear out?
babak badaei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I was not able to log into my machine using SSH. I got this
following message Server refused to allocate pty. I was, somewhat
fortunately, able to log using SCP. So SCP works.
You can use ssh -T which disables allocation of a pty
(pseudo tty). You probably won't be able to use full-
screen programs (such as vi), and maybe your shell's
editing functions won't work (depending on the shell),
but at least you will get a shell prompt. See the ssh(1)
manual page for details.
The file system
looked good for the most part; until I checked out /DEV. Almost
everything was GONE! Including MAKEDEV. Not sure what to do.
What version of FreeBSD are you running? FreeBSD 5 and 6
use DEVFS, so MAKEDEV isn't required anymore (it wouldn't
work anyway). If you're still running FreeBSD 4, then
there should be /dev/MAKEDEV.
Possible clue: Before this happened, last time I was actually
logged in via SSH, I ran a dropdb command on one of my postgres
databases and got an error message saying I did not have permission
to /DEV/NULL. Not sure what to do, I set permissions to allow write
on NULL. I have done dropdb many times before and had never seen
that message.
Please give the output from these commands:
uname -a
ls -al /dev
mount | grep dev
I hope this is in the right forum. This is the closest thing to right
place for this question in my mind but if this is in the wrong place
please direct me to the right forum.
Why do you think -arch would be the most appropriate place?
This should rather go to -questions (I've redirected it).
Best regards
Oliver
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