On Thursday 31 August 2006 09:29, babak badaei wrote: > Hello, > > A few days ago I was not able to log into my machine using SSH. I got this > following message "Server refused to allocate pty". I was, somewhat > fortunately, able to log using SCP. So SCP works. The file system looked > good for the most part; until I checked out "/DEV". Almost everything was > GONE! Including MAKEDEV. Not sure what to do. > > Possible clue: Before this happened, last time I was actually logged in via > SSH, I ran a dropdb command on one of my postgres databases and got an > error message saying I did not have permission to "/DEV/NULL". Not sure > what to do, I set permissions to allow write on "NULL". I have done > "dropdb" many times before and had never seen that message. > > If anyone has any clue as do how I may restore /DEV; or how this could have > happened. I would appreciate your input. I am running freeBSD 4.7 with 2GB > of memory on an Intel Xeon machine. Only thing left in /DEV is a file for > each harddrive partition. > > Thanks! >
According to a 4.10-something box I have, the only plain files in /dev/ are MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local. So, get a fresh copy from cvs and then create the devices you need( man MAKEDEV if you don't know how to do this). cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs checkout \ -r RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE src/etc/MAKEDEV src/etc/MAKEDEV.local HTH, nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"