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Re: What is this????




On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote:

> *- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "What is this????"
> > 
> > I found this file somewhere:
> > 
> > 
> > c---r-----   1 8224     10280     49, 117 Dec  1  2031 fonts
> > 
> > Can anybody tell me what that c is all about???
> > 
> > This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to
> > do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that.
> > 
> 
> Besides the fact that it has insane uid, gid and dates it is a character
> device file.  Similiar to a serial port or the like.
> 
> # ls -l /dev/ttyS0
>    0 crw-rw----    1 root     dialout    4,  64 Jun 10  1999 /dev/ttyS0
> 
> Acccording to the devices.txt file in the kernel Documentation a
> character device with major number of 49 is reserved for a 'SDL RISCom
> serial card'.  Where is this file?  You didn't list its path.  If it is
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts then I would just delete it and try
> re-installing xlib6g-dev.

That's exactly where it is... but I want to de-install xlib6g-dev because
it gives problems when I'm trying to install ssh. 

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