Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ee.oulu.fi> writes: > Could we fix the problem by making /dev/console a hard link to > /tmp/console instead of creating it anew? Oops, maybe this isn't such a good idea, since the new /tmp cleaning code clears passive translators before unlinking inodes. /dev/console would get cleared too :( Instead, how about: mv /tmp/console /dev/console ln -s /dev/console /tmp/console so that programs using ttyname() still work?