Package: xbase Version: 3.1.2-7 On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > It's not clear to me that MAKEDEV should be making named pipes. We could > have a MAKEPIPE script for that :-) . Doesn't some X package make this? You're right. xbase, the provider of xconsole, should make the /dev/xconsole fifo in its postint. I'm filing a bug report with this message. For benefit of the xbase maintainer, the command, once again, is: mknod -m 644 /dev/xconsole p Guy