Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:31:34 -0500 | From | Paul Fulghum <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems? |
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ismail dönmez wrote:
> But some other problems remain and the real > issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! : > > > cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../ > crw------- 1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s > crw------- 1 root root 3, 0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9 > > > And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now?
That does not look right. Char dev 3 is the pty major. This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.
Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file: mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
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