Hi

On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 5:44:53 PM UTC+2, Dudero wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> I want to change the group of my device node form "root" to "system", 
> but if I run: 
> "chgrp system /dev/mynode" 
> chgrp sasy that the group "system" is unknown. 
>
I don't think chgrp is part of Android do you have busybox installed? 
Perhaps it tries to read /etc/groups that is not present on Android
 

> I don't understand this, because "chown system /dev/mynode" works 
> fine?! 
>
> Any advise? 
>
You can use chmod system.system mynode if you want but I think the proper 
way to set permissions is by patching init see
system/core/init/devices.c

Greetings

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