On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:07, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Michael Peppler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the > > /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database > > server. On RH these devices are created by default, but it seems that > > with the default gentoo install (or at least the one that I've built :-) > > I don't have these devices. > > Normally devices are created by mknod, if devfs is in use > (gentoo default), they are created by kernel itself.
I used a work-around and created them in /etc/conf.d/local.start for now (I also need chown the device files so that user "sybase" has read/write access...) > > I am not familiar with Sybase, but can u send > ls -l of relevant devices from RH ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -l rawctl crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 0 Apr 11 2002 rawctl [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -l raw/raw? crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 1 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw1 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 2 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw2 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 3 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw3 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 4 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw4 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 5 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw5 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 6 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw6 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 7 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw7 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 8 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw8 crw-rw---- 1 sybase sybase 162, 9 Apr 11 2002 raw/raw9 I don't know if there is some feature in the kernel that I haven't seen that will auto create these files/devices for me - but like I said I've got a workaround, and that's good enough for me. Michael -- Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
