On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:57:15PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > I'm running potato, with pppoe to connect to my ISP. > When pppd starts at boot time, I get the following error > message: > Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory > > What does this message mean? There is indeed no /dev/pts/0; > infact, there are no files/dirs named /dev/pt*. Do I have > to create this device using MAKEDEV? >
There's currently a bug with /etc/init.d/devpts.sh which is supposed to set-up the mounts. Fix the script by making the last brace of the function make_devpts() a closing brace rather than an opening brace. Then re-run it. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
