Re: ttyp's...

Christopher A. Eslinger (eslingc@server1.charleston.af.mil)
Thu, 19 Dec 96 12:29:59 EST


>> I rm'ed ttyp* then did "mknod <file> c 4 7" for each one. Now upon trying

(he now has 16 tty's all at 4,7)

>ttypn should be c 3 n, according to linux/Documentation/devices.txt
>(and my Slackware system, although that's not really helping my case
>much :). Try:

on my slackware system (slackware 3.1), ttyp0 starts at 4,192..

>Or simply;
>
>for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f; do
> MAKEDEV ttyp$x
>done

i'd go with this one, since MAKEDEV is more likely to create new ttyp? with the
proper major,minor..

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Christopher A. Eslinger, SSgt
CAFB Sysadmin, x4021