Problems with subshell

[Marcel Pol]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:56:41 +0100 (CET)
Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer at gmx.de> wrote:

> > >  Pressing CTRL-O puts me "behind" the panels, but as soon as I am
> > >  pressing any key I will be put back to the panels.
> > > 
> > >  mc put a warning on the screen:
> > > 
> > >      "Cannot open master side of pty: No such file or directory (2)"
> > 
> > You did compile your kernel with pty support?
> > And you do mount devpts? With an fstab line like:
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> 
>   Yes...I did compile everything in...but I didnt MOUNT it...sigh
>   Sorry for the false alarm.
> 
>   But one question remains: I am using devfs(d). So...do I have to
>   mount devpts /really/ after calling devfd and not in fstab...
>   or are there other chnces ?

I don't think it has to do anything with devfs, but with the way the 2.6
kernel works. It now needs devpts mounted, but I forgot what the context is.
I have no idea if it should be mounted before or after calling devfsd, I just
let my distribution handle that.


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Marcel Pol