[CentOS] Legacy PTY Support ?

Fri Jul 6 18:10:43 UTC 2007
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 13:56 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> >
>  I am looking at T38Modem.  A relatively new version is ready for someone
> > to build an rpm for (Mar '07).
> >
> > But the readme warns:
> >
> > Q. I try to use T38modem, but after run "t38modem -p ttyx0" I get a message
> >    "Could not open /dev/ptyx0: No such file or directory".
> > A. Looks like you don't have legacy PTY devices compiled in your kernel.
> >    You need to re-compile the kernel with 'Legacy PTY Support'.
> >
> > Is this an issue for Centos 4.4 and/or Centos 5?
> 
> On centos4:
> grep -i pty /boot/config-2.6-9-* returns
> # CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set
> 
>  So I'd guess this would infact be a problem on c4. You can check for
> yourself on c5.

But don't forget to check the plus/rpmforge/atrpms stuff (extras too?
Can't recall what has which effect). And often a request for one of
those to include it will get it done, if not already done.

> 
> 
HTH
--
Bill