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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Tue 17 May 2005 - 04:13:13 BST


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:18:43PM +0200, Gilles wrote:
> Hi.
>
> > > Or, are there good reasons for "/dev/console" not being
> > > available inside a vserver?
> >
> > well, /dev/console is not virtualized ... probably the
> > best is to replace it with /dev/null
>
> That makes it very quiet indeed ;-)
> But it might be nice to see the "virtual boot" messages...
>
> > or if you really
> > want to see the output with /dev/tty0 ...
>
> ... So this suggestion is more appropriate, but this file doesn't
> exist. I have "tty" inside the "dev" directory. When symlinking
> "console" to it, I get an error message:
>
> - runit: warning: unable to open /dev/console: device not configured
>
> > but if you
> > think that guests should have access to the host
> > console then you can also provide /dev/console ...
>
> It's not needed in this instance.
> But, just in case, how can one provide new devices?
> Is it just a matter of running
>
> mknod /vservers/phony/dev/console c 5 1

or doing cp -a /dev/console /vservers/phony/dev/console

best,
Herbert

> ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gilles
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