Hi to all, Be aware that all the directories inside the Fox other than /var (RAM directory) and /mnt/flash (read/wrote directory) are read only directories so it is not possible to alter the contents of those directories.
Be also careful when writing inisde the /mnt/flash directory since it is FLASH based it has a limited numebr of writing cycles (100000) so if you need to write very often on it it can produce reliability problems afetr a while. In case of very frequent writings in memory use the RAM directories /var/ that don't wear out. Best regards, Roberto Asquini Eberhard Fahle ha scritto: > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 14:10:57 you wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > > > Now I have a question. I ran a programm that wanted to make a FIFO > and that > > did not work. So I tried it via 'mkfifo xyz'. > > > > The Fox receipts my efforts with the message 'operation not > permitted'. Why > > does it? root should have the permission and the program does its > work on > > the host without being run by root. Where is the problem? > > > > The directory has to be writable for this. > I have no problem creating a fifo in directory /mnt/flash/ > but > in the root-dir '/' the operation fails with: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkfifo xyz > mkfifo: xyz: Read-only file system > > Eberhard > >
