From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 07:04:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF68C16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B01943D1F for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfd@adelphia.net) Received: from Eric ([68.234.119.187]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040205150413.OOXC27240.mta9.adelphia.net@Eric> for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:04:13 -0500 Message-ID: <003901c3ebf9$989cc1e0$6700a8c0@Eric> From: "sfd" To: Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:06:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Creating device files in /dev X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:04:15 -0000 I'm running Freebsd 5.1and I'm unable to create a device file or pipe file in the /dev directory. /dev is a devfs file system which seems to be the problem. Is there any way around this? Either by adding an entry to a kernel config file or using the devfs command to create them? I have a backup program that needs to create a device file and pipe file that reside in /dev This is a must for my backups and recovery. Thank You