RE: [ILUG] dev/ttyS0 vanished

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com)
Date: Mon 14 Feb 2000 - 11:18:30 GMT


You can do something like:

rm /dev/ttyS0
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV ttyS0
(I can never remember the exact command, but man MAKEDEV, less MAKEDEV
should give you
an idea)...

or if you have the kernel sources, /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
is useful,
find ttyS0 in there, and do
mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
to get what you need.

(devices.txt is great, I nuked 1000 files from debian's /dev that I'm not
about to use...
/dev/vcsa*.. anyone used it?)

L.

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Liam Bedford				01-4170153
System Administrator			WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Ctr.,
					Harcourt St., Dublin 2
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 962264N at domain knotes.kodak.com [mailto:962264N at domain knotes.kodak.com]
> Sent: 14 February 2000 11:16
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] dev/ttyS0 vanished
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Fergal Moran
> Hi,
> 
> My /dev/ttyS0 has vanished and been overwritten by something called
> /dev/ttyS0 which isn't (dodgy script run as root <shame>).  
> What can I do?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fergal.
> 
> 
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