Bug#56893: libc6: syntax error in `/etc/init.d/devpts.sh'

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.2-12
Severity: important

Hi,

I am submitting this bug against libc6 because that's the owner of
the `/etc/init.d/devpts.sh' file, according to dpkg,

    2 jeff ~ $ dpkg -S init.d/devpts.sh
    libc6: /etc/init.d/devpts.sh

anyway, here's a patch to correct the syntax error printed upon
system startup,

    3 jsroot ~ # rdf /etc/init.d/devpts.sh 
    ===================================================================
    RCS file: /etc/init.d/RCS/devpts.sh,v
    retrieving revision 1.1
    diff -b -p -u -r1.1 /etc/init.d/devpts.sh
    --- /etc/init.d/devpts.sh       2000-02-02 15:50:03-05  1.1
    +++ /etc/init.d/devpts.sh       2000-02-02 15:50:45-05
    @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ make_devptmx()
     make_devpts()
     {
         [ -d /dev/pts ] || mkdir --mode=755 /dev/pts
    -{
    +}
     
     mount_devpts_fs()
     {

and, a symptom of this error is the inability to login to an xterm
as user `jsroot' which has uid=0, eg, `exec login jsroot', which
worked ok prior to this syntax error.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux eden-hda7.local 2.2.13 #3 Tue Nov 23 19:16:01 EST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ii  ldso           1.9.11-5       The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit