Re: Error when PPP starts up
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:57:15PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote:
> I'm running potato, with pppoe to connect to my ISP.
> When pppd starts at boot time, I get the following error
> message:
> Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory
>
> What does this message mean? There is indeed no /dev/pts/0;
> infact, there are no files/dirs named /dev/pt*. Do I have
> to create this device using MAKEDEV?
>
There's currently a bug with /etc/init.d/devpts.sh which is supposed to
set-up the mounts.
Fix the script by making the last brace of the function make_devpts()
a closing brace rather than an opening brace. Then re-run it.
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