Re: /dev/console on RH 6.0

["David A. Waltermire" <dwalt desupernet net>]

Justin Oelgoetz wrote:

>    I'm having problems opening a xconsole in 6.0.  It tells simply states
> it can not open /dev/console.  Furthermore scripts that redirected output
> to /dev/console no longer work properly.  Any suggestions?
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Check to see if it exists.  If it doesn't use:

mknod /dev/console c 4 0 --m 600

which will create it.





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