On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Eric Jahn wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 09:36 am, Eben King wrote:
> >What Debian package reestablishes
> > > /dev/pts?
> >
> > No package TTBOMK,
>
> TTBOMK is a new one for me! What does this stand for?
"to the best of my knowledge". One that stumped me for a long time was
"IOTTMCO" -- "intuitively obvious to the most casual observer".
> > Re your "no prompt" -- if you had been playing with prompt colors (and
> > this doesn't fix the problem), check to make sure you don't have a black
> > prompt on a black screen (or similar).
>
> I can manually get the prompt back now. I readded /dev/pts to my directory
> structure (gave it 777 permissions, but would like to know what perms it
> ideally should have). Then, I manually run the command "mount /dev/pts" from
> tty4 and then my x terminal prompts work again for all users! :) So how do
> make /dev/pts mount automatically at boot, so I don't need to manually do
> this each boot up? Here are my fstab relevant lines:
> #this devpts commented out, because I'm trying to change it to make it mount
> #at boot
> #devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
OK, doesn't this make it mount automatically?
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