Re: /dev/console missing

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From: Rupert Littlewood
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:00

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cs308340@student.uq.edu.au (Paul Wyborn) writes:
> I installed the August 1996 slackware on a new system and had trouble
> running gpm (selection), X and so on. The /dev/console device was
> missing. ln -s /dev/tty0 /dev/console fixed the problem, but I was
> wondering why this happened, and if this is the best way to fix it?

This is fine. Does slackware come with a MAKEDEV script in /dev?
(Redhat does). If so, it is the easiest way to recreate stuff in
/dev. Recently I did rm -rf /dev as root (meaning this for /mnt/dev) and
having a spare copy of MAKEDEV at hand saved me a lot of time.

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Rupert Littlewood                         Graduate Student in Maths 
rupert@maths.usyd.edu.au                          Sydney University

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