From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 17 12:54:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22B67152F8 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu) Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA04909; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:58:29 -0500 From: Bill Paul Message-Id: <200001172058.PAA04909@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: /dev/sndstat To: gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk (George Cox) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:58:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000117193002.A259@extremis.demon.co.uk> from "George Cox" at Jan 17, 2000 07:30:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1065 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, George Cox had to walk into mine and say: > I cvsupped yesterday. I install a complete snapshot today. > extremis /dev # ./MAKEDEV sndstat0 > expr: non-numeric argument > bad node: mknod mixerstat0 > > Something's wrong :-) No, nothing is wrong: x-ctr# cd /dev x-ctr# ./MAKEDEV snd0 x-ctr# ls -l /dev/sndstat crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 6 Jan 17 10:51 /dev/sndstat /dev/sndstat is created as a consequence of creating doing MAKEDEV snd0. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message