There shouldn't be any need to fiddle inittab. What makes you say so?
> Also, a question of my own, devfs (or devfsd) seems to assume
> glibc2.1 because even with compatibility enabled in devfsd things
> are broken. Eg, telnetd can't find a pty, i had to mknod one before
> i could telnet in. Also things like who/w show ?? as the login
> console. (except for telnet where i created /dev/pty1)
This is because older versions of libc had a flawed version of
ttyname(3) which couldn't cope with your pty being a symlink. Libc
5.4.44 is fixed and sometime in glibc it was fixed.
Regards,
Richard....
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