On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:07:58AM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > Hmmmm... I usually am within two weeks of Sid updates, but > my tty devices are mostly mtimed to when I first installed > Debian. Some have been updated, due to maintenance or > active use, I presume, but the permissions are, well, > interesting. Here's everything, with entries that are > identical save for name and maj/min diffs elided. Question: > do updates to MAKEDEV automatically rebuild all /dev entries? no, when you change permissions on something they are generally preserved by makedev. but i rm -f'ed all my tty devices: root@chrooted root# cd /dev/ root@chrooted dev# rm -f tty[0-9]* # wheeee ;-) root@chrooted dev# ls -l tty2 ls: tty2: No such file or directory root@chrooted dev# ./MAKEDEV console root@chrooted dev# ls -l tty2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 2 Jul 10 05:13 tty2 root@chrooted dev# ls -l tty30 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 30 Jul 10 05:13 tty30 root@chrooted dev# ls -l tty12 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 12 Jul 10 05:13 tty12 root@chrooted dev# dpkg -s makedev | grep ^Ver Version: 2.3.1-53 root@chrooted dev# -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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