From: utzoo!decvax!cca!TXR@USC-ECL@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: /dev screwed up
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2526
Posted: Fri Aug  6 22:39:02 1982
Received: Mon Aug  9 07:10:43 1982

From:   Tim Rentsch 
Date: 19 Jul 1982 1737-PDT
We have experienced a problem with /dev getting screwed up a
couple times now.  One time the symptom was that /dev/tty was an
ordinary file, with logins not working (login reads the password
from /dev/tty, which being an ordinary file simply returns
whatever garbage is in the file).  Another time /dev was really
messed up, we had to rebuild Unix from the distribution tape to
get back on the air again.  Has anyone else been having these
problems, or (better yet) tell me how to solve them?

Tim Rentsch