* Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console -> tty0
> Then there is a bug in Eterm. Or you are trying to let multiple > programs catch the output of /dev/console - TIOCCONS (the mechanism > that provides "console output cloning to ptys") can only redirect > to ONE pty at the time. Wonderful! That was it: I ran xconsole already as I tried to start Eterm --console. > There is nothing to fix. The link from /dev/console to /dev/tty0 > is standard in all distributions. Only with 2.2.x kernels did > /dev/console get its own major/minor device, c 5 1. Using that > with 2.0.x kernels won't work at all. Okay, I lied when I said that I have a plain slink system: I compiled 2.2.x kernels myself, and not using a Debian package for this. Shame on me :-) Would the Debian kernel package have removed that link and created that device? Should/could I do this myself? Thanks, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not! [Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
