> Can anyone tell me the significance of this device in the system?
>
> I'm having various minor problems on one system I'm 'playing' with and one
> difference between that and a standard Debian distribution is that if I
> `echo hello > /dev/tty` on the Debian system, I get the hello written back
> (just as if with using /dev/tty0 or /dev/console. However, if I try the
> echo statement above on the other system, I get:
>
> cannot create /dev/tty: no such device or address
>
> This indicates to me that the kernel isn't configured properly somewhere
> along the way....
Did the kernel get built with devpts? Is it correctly mounted? It
seems that as of 2.2.x somewhere pty's are provided at the kernel level
-- my RH 6.0 system comes configured to mount:
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
and when I deliberately excluded this line from fstab I got the same
message your report.
rgb
>
> The device is there and identical on both systems `mknod /dev/tty c 5 0`
> with perms 644 and owner root:root.
>
> My reason for finding this is that when I start ash I get:
>
> sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
>
> And I've been trying to figure out why ash is complaining.... which lead me
> to discover the tty problem above....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>
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