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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:08:57PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, sfd wrote:
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> What program is this, so we can avoid it? :)
>=20
> It might be possible using the devfs config bits to create a symlink that
> points elsewhere.

Someone on Usenet suggested binary patching the application to look in
/tmp instead of /dev...this is probably the best solution.

Kris

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