Re: How to create /dev/pts

[Aras Vaichas <arasv@magtech.com.au>]

jimbob palmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 in a container (openvz).
>
> Ubuntu uses udev, and the /dev/pts device does not exist in the container.
>
> I can cheat, and run
> cd /dev && /sbin/MAKEDEV pty && /sbin/MAKEDEV tty
> manually with a chroot, but this is a hack.
>
> RHEL has the makedev.d directory which solves my problem quite easily.
>
> I wondered if there is a correct way of doing this with just udev?
>
If it will help, this is the top section of my init script. I create the
pts directory.

# essential system init
mount -t tmpfs mdev /dev
mkdir /dev/pts
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount proc
mount sys

# copy over some necessary devices
cp -a /lib/udev/devices/* /dev

where:
# ll /lib/udev/devices/
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Sep  1  2008 ./
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Aug 29  2008 ../
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Jul  7  2008 core -> /proc/kcore@
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jul  7  2008 fd -> /proc/self/fd/
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       1,   3 Aug 12  2008 null
crw-rw-r--    1 root     root     108,   0 Sep  1  2008 ppp
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Jan  9  2006 shm/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  7  2008 stderr -> fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  7  2008 stdin -> fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  7  2008 stdout -> fd/1
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       4,  64 Aug 27  2008 ttyS0

Some of those might be unnecessary, I'm currently in the middle of an
overhaul and update of our whole distribution.

Aras

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