tty2 respawning too fast

[Paul Harris <harri-pc@ee.uwa.edu.au>]

hi,

I just had my system hosed, but was able to recover in an hour with
minimal (? will find out soon if not!) damage... however I'm getting the
ol'

INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

Now I know WHY its doing this: my /dev/tty2 was hosed with the system, and
I don't know how to create a correct /dev/tty2...

can someone please tell me how? check out a dir listing:

crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   0 May 31 06:05 tty0
crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,   1 May 31 05:50 tty1
-rw-------   1 root     root            0 May 31 05:47 tty2
crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,   3 May 31 05:50 tty3
crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,   4 May 31 05:50 tty4
crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,   5 May 31 05:50 tty5
crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,   6 May 31 05:50 tty6
crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   7 Jul 21  1998 tty7
crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   8 Jan  1 06:32 tty8
crw--w--w-   1 root     root       4,   9 Jul 21  1998 tty9

note tty2 is crapped itself... note also how do i have the sizes (?) to
increment like that?

thanks,
Paul