ptys /dev not creating etc..

eosix · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 1

hey folks, sorry if this has been hashed somewhere. I didn't see it and frankly am unfamiliar with how the /dev system works as a whole. I did a restore of my gentoo system (using mondo-archive) and it seemed to not restore my /dev/ptys/ entries. These appear dynamically created, I'm not totally sure. The issue is, if I run sshd, it runs but when I log in now, it trys to createpty and then my login session just freezes. If I run telnetd, it just says all available ports are in use. I've also had problems with xterms too but I went to a known good gentoo box and tar'd up the ptys and used those. That seemed to mitigate that problem (so far) but ssh doesn't work. I'm trying to use this for an rmon server on a high speed network but I can't ssh in. What I was wondering was, how does the pty's get created? I'm not sure how gentoo, or linux for the most part does this. I know vc's use getty of some sort and that works just fine.
But I don't know what creates the pty's. I'm sorry if this is a lame question. I'd ask the mondo folks but really I'd like to see how its done from a gentoo perspective anyways. I have quite a few of them running now in production

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks - eo

fifo · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 437

This is a dup of this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=38780.

tgoodaire · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:24 am Post subject: MAKEDEV

Hi there,

I believe that the /dev entries are created at some point during emerge system. There is actually a script called MAKEDEV that you can download from here:

http://ftp.no.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-packages/4.0/MAKEDEV-1.7.bz2

that will assist you in restoring your missing entries.

Copy it to /dev, cd /dev, bunzip2 MAKEDEV-1.7.bz2, chmod 754 MAKEDEV, ./MAKEDEV -v generic

This should create all the missing entries for you.
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