Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:57:54 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Eric Parkin <eparkin@op.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Message-ID: <20010206015753.A33909@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <01020600114000.00488@tenchi.sakuya>; from eparkin@op.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:08:06AM -0500 References: <01020600114000.00488@tenchi.sakuya>
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Eric Parkin (eparkin@op.net) wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my home box. I've set the system up > the way I like, and recently modified and recompiled the kernel to include > support for my ESS based Sound Card. Following the howtos and what nots, I > reached the step for "sh MAKEDEV snd0" only to find that I do not have MAKEDEV > on my system.. I did the various 'whereis MAKEDEV' commands, etc. and have > found absolutely nothing. I have the 'man' pages for 'MAKEDEV' though that > seems to be the extent of it. my /dev directory doesn't have 'MAKEDEV' either. > Where can I get 'MAKEDEV' and/or what do I need to for the equivalent of the > 'sh MAKEDEV snd0' command? Any and all assistance is greatly apprecaited. MAKEDEV is a shell script which *should* reside in /dev. Since /dev is not in your PATH, you cannot locate it using commands like 'which MAKEDEV'. The normal way I run MAKEDEV is to cd /dev and either 'sh MAKEDEV' or './MAKEDEV'. I'm trying to think of reasons that MAKEDEV wouldn't be in the /dev dir, but I'm currently at a loss. An easy way to get an up-to-date MAKEDEV script is download one from the CVS web repository: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/MAKEDEV Download the file, and (as root) copy the file to /dev. You will also want to 'chmod 555 MAKEDEV' -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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