Re: how can I create the /dev/gpmdata file?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

Hallo Pavios,

> yesterday night I removed the /dev/gpmdata file by mistake and now I
> don't know how I can create. I reinstalled the gpm package but it
> didn't create the file.  Any ideas?


I first thought you can do this with "cd /dev;./MAKEDEV gpmdata" then
I did a "ls -lap /dev/gpmdata" and got

prw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      0 2003-03-18 10:39 /dev/gpmdata|

and realised that this is not a normal device.

I could not immediately remember what the | is referring to so I did a 

zsh % file /dev/gpmdata
/dev/gpmdata: fifo (named pipe)

So to create that you can use "mkfifo /dev/gpmdata"

Regards.
Johann
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