I noticed that udev creates all tty/pty[a-z][0-9], it's normal this? I changed two rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. In this way the files pty and tty disappear. KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k" to KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n" KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k" to KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n" # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups directfb dvd emacs encode esd f77 fbcon flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
No, this is the correct set of rules.
thanks for the answer