Thanks for the tip. After sifting through doc, Configure.help mentioned
this. In fact, that the virtual filesystem refuses to mount. I have an
fstab entry like yours, devpts support is turned on in the kernel. The
strace of the mount command shows mount opens /etc/mtab, reads it,
closes it and quits. mtab is read/write for root, etc., so what is mount
looking for, ?? I'll check permissions on /proc, though it seems to be
working. I guess I'll have to find the mount source and start searching
through it. I was disappointed by the telnetd source as I didn't see it
opening /dev/ptmx as I expected. It was opening /dev/ptyXX. I think I
have the same source as I'm running, etc., so I'm not confident I can
trace through the code.
> This problem seems to have occured a few times recently on the NG.
> I cant find the doc on my system for the unix98 stuff.
> On my system in /etc/fstab I have
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> and mount shows ....
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> lsa /dev/pts
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 12 08:13 /dev/pts
> It would be worthwhile checking that you have /dev/pts mounted.
> Please post if you find the answer,
> Hope you fix it soon,
> Steve Houseman
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> currently steve.houseman at * net
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