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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: brian@mediacity.com
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Subject: Re: SCO: Unable to open console device <<STATUS 28675>>
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> When I run any of the applications that make up the package I get the 
> error:
> 
> Unable to open console device << STATUS 28675 >>

Hmm, you may want 'ktrace' on them.  Note, you'll need to re-compile
your kernel.

> My /compat/ibcs2/dev looks like
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         9 Jul 30 23:40 socksys -> /dev/null
...
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   41,   0 Jul 30 02:14 spx

It should be:
        mknod spx c 41 1

But, I'm not sure if that works.  It may be that the call it is doing
hasn't been implemented yet.  Also, which version of FreeBSD are you
using?


Nate