On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > did you enable devfs and forget to edit /etc/inittab to use 'vc/n' instead
> > of 'ttyn' ?
>
> If that is the case then devfs needs some tweaking
/dev/ttyN doesn't exist unless devfsd is running which is a userland daemon.
people tend to enable kernel options without reading the documentation
accompanying said options :)
> Thus using any other name places devfs out of the standard. Is there a
> reason for devfs not providing /dev/tty{n} (nothing stops it providing
> /dev/vc/n as well)
/dev without devfsd has perhas a two dozen top level entries. running
devfsd as per instructions creates all the symlinks to the proper devices.
nifty:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /dev/tty1
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 10 12:25 /dev/tty1 -> vc/1
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