cttyhack/tty/initramfs problem (take a number)

[Ersin Akinci]

Weird, I just tried adding /dev/tty1, but now instead of getting the
no /dev/tty1 error, I'm back to the "can't access tty; job control
turned off" warning.

On 12/4/09, Ersin Akinci <ersin.akinci at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Create /dev/tty1. Should look like this:
>
> Aren't the ttys supposed to be created by devpts under /dev/pts?  How
> do I get it to do that?
>
> On 12/4/09, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 05 December 2009 00:28, Ersin Akinci wrote:
>>> I have a question about getting a shell started up, which will no
>>> doubt sound familiar and similar to the 100 other e-mails like this,
>>> yet after reading everything I'm still not sure what to do.
>>>
>>> Basically, I'm trying to bring up a single user shell on a minimal
>>> initramfs without having to bother with init, inittab, getty, or any
>>> of that.  Running /bin/sh at the end of my init script results in no
>>> job control, as everyone knows.  Instead, you're supposed to run the
>>> shell on a normal tty, but with Unix98 pty control there are no fixed
>>> tty device nodes in /dev.  These are generated on the fly, but I don't
>>> know how.
>>
>> Where exactly do you want shell prompt to appear?
>>
>>> I think that getty does so (can someone please confirm this?),
>>
>> No, it does not.
>>
>>> but
>>> again, I don't want to use getty or any login tools.  Actually, I
>>> wouldn't mind using getty so long as I don't have to deal with any of
>>> the login/user stuff (i.e., if I could bypass login altogether).  I
>>> tried using cttyhack /bin/sh, but that gives me "can't open
>>> '/dev/tty1': No such file or directory".
>>
>> Aha. You are running it on Linux virtual ttys.
>>
>>> What should I do?
>>
>> Create /dev/tty1. Should look like this:
>>
>> # ls -l /dev/tty1
>> crw-rw----    1 root     root       4,   1 Dec  4 20:26 /dev/tty1
>>
>> --
>> vda
>>
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