On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:45:51PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:19:18 -0800 > "jeffrey j wilkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > hi, > > > > i accidentally destroyed my /dev/ttyS1 file, the file for my modem. > > is ther an easy to recover this file?? i just upgraded from potato > > to woody, so i don't have even the option of starting over. is there > > some way to get a coy of the file? > > my ideas: > 1) copy one of the existing /dev/ttyS0,2,3 to ttyS1 ?
This won't work, since each device has a different minor number. > 2) read the MAKEDEV man page ? (safest option on list) > 3) wing it and just cd to /dev/ and mknod ttyS1 c 4 65 ; then set permissions ? These two should work fine. -rob
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