mdev help

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Aug 17 02:15:38 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 16 August 2006 8:14 am, Chey wrote:

> Here is the output:
> 
> @foobar:/# cat /sys/class/tty/tty/dev
> 5:0
> @foobar:/# ls -l /dev/tty*
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          5,   0 Aug 16 12:19 /dev/tty

Ok, mdev is doing its job.

> crw-rw----    1 0        0          4,  64 Aug 16 12:19 /dev/ttyS0
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          4,  65 Aug 16 12:19 /dev/ttyS1
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          4,  66 Aug 16 12:19 /dev/ttyS2
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          4,  67 Aug 16 12:19 /dev/ttyS3
> 
> One thing I would like to mention is that if I static my nodes in the
> root file system I don't have this problem.

Possibly "chmod 777 /dev/tty"?  Look at mdev.conf in 
http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html#item_mdev to see how to get it to 
do that for you.

Rob
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