Centos dev fix

[Adam01]

If any of you use centos, you'l may find that on reboots you get the ssh message, "Server refused to alocate pty". An error only to be fixed by lxadmin's dev fix.

Eventually I found the fix for command line use, which I put into the sshd service manager so it fixes it self without using lxadmin.

To apply a automatic fix, open up the file:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd


Then find the start function (half way down)
It should look something like this

start()
{
    # Create keys if necessary
    do_rsa1_keygen
    do_rsa_keygen
    do_dsa_keygen
    rm /dev/null
    cp -af /etc/localtime /var/empty/sshd/etc
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
    $SSHD $OPTIONS && success || failure
    RETVAL=$?
    [ "$RETVAL" = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sshd
    echo
}

After the { , add these following lines:

echo Fixing dev and pty...
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
chmod 666 /dev/null
/sbin/MAKEDEV pty
/sbin/MAKEDEV tty
echo Done.

Then the next time sshd gets started/restarted, that fix will be applied.

[The Real Rebel]

Nice tutorial,
Might need this on another server of mine xD