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Re: Ubuntu Template /dev Problems [message #687 is a reply to message #686] Fri, 06 January 2006 18:26 Go to previous message
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> Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 19:23 schrieb Greg Felter:
>
>>I am creating an Ubuntu 5.04 template for OpenVZ and have run into a
>>problem. There are no /dev/pty, /dev/random, and /dev/urandom devices in
>>/dev. I have created these devices by the following:
>>
>>cd /vz/root/111/dev; /vz/root/111/sbin/MAKEDEV pty
>
>
> I think you should create them in /vz/private/111/...
actually, it's better to do
vzctl exec 111 /sbin/MAKEDEV pty
since /sbin/MAKEDEV can be untrusted executable :)
it also guarantees you that device entries will be created in VPS /dev
directory, not in host system...

>>This creates the devices just fine. When I reboot Ubuntu the devices are
>>not there and need to be created all over again. When I created templates
>>for other linux distros I have had to create /dev/pty but they are there on
>>reboot.
>>
>>drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 1 14:18 dev
>>
>>How do I solve this problem on Ubuntu? Thanks
>>
>>*Also posted to ubuntu.com support forum
>>

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