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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:11:43 +0100

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:13:58AM -0600, David Kowis wrote:
> I didn't know that it got obsoleted, I read through the config and caught
> things
> like software suspend and such. Thanks a lot. I'll try to test it at lunch
> if I
> can because I can no longer ssh to my computer from work.
>
> one question, if I boot back into a 2.4.x kernel will the mounting line in
> fstab
> cause any problems?

No, it doesn't hurt to mount both devfs and devpts with kernel 2.4, it's
just not necessary.

> Thanks a lot,
> David
>
> > devfs has been obsoleted in 2.6, and while it's still there it no longer
> > provides PTY's so you need to both include /dev/pts file system in the
> > kernel and
> >
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
> >
> > in /etc/fstab
> >
>
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