Re: Console in 2.1.72

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:32:53 -0500


On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 09:26:40PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Hi,
> Strange - are you sure you did it correctly ? I just booted a vanilla
> 2.1.72 kernel, no serial console compiled in etc, and:
> [root](~)> mknod -m 622 console c 5 1
> [root](~)> ll console
> crw--w--w- 1 root root 5, 1 Dec 11 21:19 console
> [root](~)> echo test > console
> test
For what it's worth:
(root@jackalz):/dev# echo test > console
bash: console: Operation not supported by device
(root@jackalz):/dev# ls -l console
crw--w--w- 1 root root 5, 1 Dec 11 19:14 console
(root@jackalz):/dev# uname -a
Linux jackalz 2.1.72 #6 Tue Dec 9 21:47:23 EST 1997 i486
-Myrdraal