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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tty0x definitions in 2.0.5 Date: 14 Nov 1995 09:11:59 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <489j0f$mh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <816264990.19728@org29.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Stuart M Pringle <stuartp@org29.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I have just installed 2.0.5 and as, a relative newcomer, used the > Frisch Sytem Admin book as a guide. I expected to find definitions > in /dev/ttys for tty0x - ttyxx but there are only ttydx and ttypx. > Also there are no tty 0x - ttyxx files in /dev. /dev/tty0X used to be identical to /dev/ttydX long before (only with a different semantic meaning from the operator's point of view), so the /dev/tty0X's have been removed to reduce the confusion (e.g. of dev_mkdb(8)). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)