On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 02:40:12PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > actually i don't know. it seem that the stuff in /dev is not ok, i had > > problems > > with xterm because the /dev/tty* where not readable by everyone. i guess you > > should get a recent MAKEDEV (from the same name debian package ?), erase the > > /dev/* and remake them (don't know the options of MAKEDEV, ./MAKEDEV all > > didn't > > work for me, so i just chmod a+w /dev/tty* ...) > > Use the `-p' option of tar to preserve the permissions.
yes, but i didn't knew that when i installed the base tarball. i suppose i could just do a tar -C / xpzvf base.tgz /dev/* instead ? what is the correct way to use MAKEDEV to recreate all the devices ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER
