From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041210 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Trying to run Splus 6.2.1 in emacs editing mode using the "-e" option. The program fails with a error relating to master pty: erich@ceph:~$ Splus -e cled: can't open master pty ("/dev/ptyq0"): No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 039-10.8.EL4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Splus -e 2. 3. Actual Results: Program aborts with error relating to pty: cled: can't open master pty ("/dev/ptyq0"): No such file or directory Expected Results: Progams runs, allowing emacs editing capabilities. Additional info:
ok, add: /sbin/MAKEDEV pty in /etc/rc.local. These devices are not in use anymore by the distribution.