From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 16:45:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 16:45:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sulima.sulima.com (sulima.sulima.com [209.122.61.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11295; Mon, 18 May 1998 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ichi@sulima.sulima.com) Received: (from ichi@localhost) by sulima.sulima.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08659; Mon, 18 May 1998 19:45:40 GMT (envelope-from ichi) From: bush doctor Ichi Message-Id: <199805181945.TAA08659@sulima.sulima.com> Subject: why doesn't MAKEDEV make ttyc[1-N]? To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:45:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I've searched high and I've searched low, now I'm searching in-between ... =;-) In looking to configure my Cyclades Cyclom 8yo for use with either ppp(8) or pppd(8) and mgetty I keep seeing references to /dev/ttyc?. Now MAKEDEV doesn't make these devices. Why? I know I can use mknod(8) to create them. Is this what we're suppose to do? I can't seem to find anything specific on this, so if someone in the know would enlighten me on this I'd appreciate it!!!! Thanxs in advance ... i'chi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message