Greetings,
At one stage, I wanted to save the changed inodes
in /dev, so I uncommented the lines in /etc/devfsd.conf:
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REGISTER .* COPY /dev-state/$devname $devpath
CHANGE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
CREATE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
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It seemed to work fine. I since decided to not copy
these inodes, and I now rather get (or at least try to
get) devfsd to make everything that I need in /dev on
the fly. So, I don't currently suffer from this problem,
but for the rest of the mail, assume that the above
lines are in /etc/devfsd.conf.
I was logging in to xterms and gnome-terms OK,
until I logged in as root. This worked fine, but then
when I next logged in as chippo, I had the UNIX98
pty problem, similarly to when I had glibc-2.1.2
installed. This was persistent across reboots.
It seemed to me (though I don't know enough to
confirm it), that when root logged in, it changed the
permissions of some pty stuff, and that devfsd was
remembering this.
I could well have (due to ignorance) messed up
the installation. Any guesses what?
Or this could be a bug. Maybe we should warn
people in the README.
Cheers,
chippo
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