On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 05:13:32PM -0500, Robert Giles wrote:
| I installed a copy of slackware onto a new disk, devpts filesystem was
| working fine - telnet logins showed up as pts/0, pts/1, etc.
|
| I removed the /dev/ directory on the *old* disk (/mnt/dev/) and somehow rm
| must have followed a symlink or two and killed devpts on my new
| disk. Now I'm back to ttyp0, ttyp1, etc. terminal names.
|
| I untarred the dev directory again from slackware install disks, still
| can't get it to work. /dev/ptmx exists with right permissions and 'node
| flags'
On my RedHat box, /dev/pts is a seperate filesystem.
% grep pts /etc/mtab
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
% grep pts /etc/fstab
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
Maybe you just need to remount it? Does the mount point /dev/pts exist?
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