Am I a Bonehead or what? (# rm /dev)
Mike McCarty
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 29 02:28:00 UTC 2008
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [deleted /dev]
>>>>
>>> What version of Fedora? With any version with udev, there is the
>>
>> No, no udev. This is FC2.
>
> do the following:
>
> rpm -qf /dev
>
> This should tell you the name of the RPM which "owns" dev. You can then
> re-install it (if you have it). You can probably find it using
> rpm.pbone.net if you have to. I'm pretty sure that the script named
> MAKEDEV or MAKEDEVS is what actually generates the devices in /dev/
Ok. Thanks for the advice!
$ rpm -qf /dev
dev-3.3.13-1
$ locate dev-3.3.13-1
[empty]
rpm.pbone.net turned up
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedoralegacy/fedora/2/os/i386/dev-3.3.13-1.i386.rpm
Which I have downloaded. So now I do
# rpm -i --force
Followed by
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV
Is that right?
Mike
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