ah this did it.  I'm not sure why it was all messed up.  As far as I

recall I didn't mess with /dev  hrmmmm
ah well MAKEDEV all fixed it.  Everything is ok now.
On 2/26/07, Stuart Henderson  wrote:

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> On 2007/02/26 13:39, Bryan Irvine wrote:

> > sh: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: Permission denied)

> > sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied

>

> this all points to permissions on /dev being wrong.

>

> (cd /dev;sh MAKEDEV all), I would untar the relevant OS distribution

> *.tgz over the top as well (with the p flag) to fix up any other files

> that may have been broken.