Re: /dev/console should it always be available?

From: Garst R. Reese (reese@isn.net)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 19:50:56 EST

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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>

        As far as mingetty respawning to fast, that's almost certainly because
        you have an entry in /etc/iniitab which for /dev/tty[123456] which
isn't
        going to exist if you don't have a video card installed. Edit
        /etc/inittab to fix that problem.

- Ted

Maybe /dev/tty[123456] should be renamed to /dev/vc[123456]
How many years has it been since a tty (teletype) was even manufactured?
My kids did their grade 3 math on one, but the youngest is 39. I
personally find the ttySn tty, pty stuff pretty non intuitive. Obviously
the devfs junkies agree.
Cheers, Garst

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