Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Console in 2.1.72 | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:48:57 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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From 2.1.72 Documentation/devices.txt: > The console device, /dev/console, is the device to which system > messages should be sent, and on which logins should be permitted in > single-user mode. Starting with Linux 2.1.71, /dev/console is managed > by the kernel; for previous versions it should be a symbolic link to > either /dev/tty0, a specific virtual console such as /dev/tty1, or to > a serial port primary (tty*, not cu*) device, depending on the > configuration of the system.
I dutifully removed /dev/console, which was a link to tty0, and made the new node, (as I'm sure everyone did when they read the changes in the documentation <G>)
Didn't work though - I just got lots of complaints from init that it couldn't open /dev/console
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