Re: rootskel can't make dev
On Mon Feb 05, 2001 at 11:00:16PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> David Whedon wrote:
> > It looks like one problem is trying to run mknod (or cp -a) while not root to
> > create the special files in /dev. I get messages like:
> > ruff:rootskel$ mknod hda b 3 0
> > mknod: `hda': Operation not permitted
> > ruff:rootskel$
>
> Right, you can't create device files as a normal user. Looks like
> fakeroot hides the error while creating empty normal files..
> I think you'll have to require that your rules file run as real root,
> not fakeroot. If you don't want to do that we can keep the dev files in
> build/Makfile, I guess.
Or use busybox 'makedevs' to create the device files first
thing after boot. LRP does this...
-Erik
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