[wellylug] Rm -Rf on /dev/video1394 ?

Centurion Computer Technology Limited Centurion at paradise.net.nz
Tue Sep 24 09:43:53 NZST 2002


On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 05:56, paradise wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Got this little question.... I have to replace
> 
> /dev/video1394/
> total 0
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     172,   0 jan  1  1970 0
> 
> doing:
> 
> 1) rm -Rf /dev/video1394 
> 2)then recreate it with the proper options: 
> mknod -m 666 /dev/video1394 c 171 16 
> 
> Unfortunately even as root I can not get rid of the first (172) with rm -Rf
> Am I missing something here ? :-)

You are using Mandrake 8.2 which uses the devfs and you shouldn't need
to create any nodes as that is done automagically when the module is
loaded in the right place.
 
> Thanks for your help
> Edouard
> 
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