I'm wondering how to get /dev/console to work properly in Debian. I'm running Debian 2.1 slink, and a 2.2.12 kernel. I've seen that the Debian distribution sets /dev/console up as a symlink to /dev/tty0, while slackware and Redhat create an actual device with Major # 5 and Minor # 1.
Is there a practical reason for this disparity? I'm just trying to figure out why this was done in Debian... also, I can't seem to get console messages to log to the console on my Debian box, whereas the same setup works fine in slackware. Example: I have: auth,authpriv.* /dev/console in my syslog.conf. These messages should then be logged to the console (among other places). The slackware 7 box handles it fine, but I don't get any console output at all on the Debian machine. I've even tried creating the device (MAKEDEV console) and using it for the syslog messages, but still -- I get nothing on the console. Can anyone help me with getting the console device to work properly? I really can't see what else to try, it's a fairly basic problem, it just seems to me like it should "work." ;)
