Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. What release are you running? This is on Wheezy (testing

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
Grepping the debian udev source gives: udev/udevd.c: udev/udev-rules.c: udev/udev-event.c: /* set sticky bit, so we do not remove the node on module unload */ And in line 426-429 of udev/udev-node.c, version 175-3, function int udev_node_remove(struct udev_device *dev): if (stats.st_mode & 01000

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw > shm d > Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. > What release are you running? This is on Wheezy (testing). This behaviour is relatively new in testing.

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. What release are you running? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
ost, what does the sticky bit on character or block device files even > _mean_? I'm guessing it's meaningless, but I wonder. My Google fu comes up > empty. It's a big cover up? ;P POSIX does not specify a behavior for the S_ISVTX bit being set on a file: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onli

Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Lebbing
Hello all, Since some time I get the message > swapon: [...]: insecure permissions 1660, 0660 suggested. [1] is related to this. I'm not worried, but there are two things I wonder: 1) Foremost, what does the sticky bit on character or block device files even _mean_? I'm

Re: scsi device files not created when called for

2012-02-11 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:06:40 +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: >> In the latter case, which package should I report against? > I'd say "libsane". I think I'll go for udev. Once the scanner is attached to to a scsi device file, then the appropriate module should be loaded and th

Re: scsi device files not created when called for

2012-02-11 Thread Camaleón
ed to a scsi device, but the scsi device files are not being > created automatically under /dev/ which means that xsane will not see > it. When I ran: > >~/ % sudo modprobe sg > > manually, the scsi device files are created as /dev/sg0 etc. and my > scanner now works ag

scsi device files not created when called for

2012-02-11 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
ANSI: 4 My Epson scanner is thus recognized. However, the scanner is also being attached to a scsi device, but the scsi device files are not being created automatically under /dev/ which means that xsane will not see it. When I ran: ~/ % sudo modprobe sg manually, the scsi device files are

Re: disappearing device files

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:56 -0500, I wrote: > Now, though, every time I boot, the /dev/flash link disappears. And > recently, /dev/sdc1 disappeared too. On Thu Feb 22 10:07:59 2007, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > HAL and UDEVD. > > They auto create and r

Re: disappearing device files

2007-02-22 Thread Greg Folkert
sdc1 with mknod, it functions fine, but it disappears after > any reboot. There are plenty of other symbolic links that came with the > system (e.g. cdrom -> hda), and they don't disappear. > > What's going on? Are device files checked against some official registry

disappearing device files

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Kleene
olic links that came with the system (e.g. cdrom -> hda), and they don't disappear. What's going on? Are device files checked against some official registry and deleted if they're unrecognized? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-30 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hello! I just wanted to report that I finally found a way to generate more than 256 device nodes for a major device: Making a dist-upgrade to Debian Etch ("testing")! To avoid any bad sideeffects that could postpone my project any further all installations have been made inside a VMware Server e

Re: Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:36:06PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Hello Kevin, > > I did diff my Debian kernel configuration with the one from > Ubuntu. Lots of differences but nothing really in the filesystem > area 8-( > > I found two differences worth checking: Ubuntu has no DEVFS > support c

Re: Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-24 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hello Kevin, I did diff my Debian kernel configuration with the one from Ubuntu. Lots of differences but nothing really in the filesystem area 8-( I found two differences worth checking: Ubuntu has no DEVFS support compiled/activated. And there was a raw files parameter set to 255. Neither throw

Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-23 Thread Kevin Mark
lder" ones. > >The problem is this: > > I want to create more than 4000 device files >for a project. I am aware that this is an >uncommon scenario. But it is a customer request. > >Generating the device files works well for the >first 255 ones.

No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hello! 0. I discovered a strange phenomenon with a Debian Sarge installation. I am able to replicate it on several machines. It occurs on freshly installed machines as well as on "older" ones. The problem is this: I want to create more than 4000 device files for a

Re: /dev/nvidia* device files missing

2004-04-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The patch to create these devices in udev is included in debian's non-free > source. Perhaps you were missing the appropriate udev rules to actually > create the device files. > > Put the following in a file (whose name ends

Re: /dev/nvidia* device files missing

2004-04-15 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:10:21 +0200, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > hi, > > I had problems trying to use the (non-free) nvidia kernel module > generated from nvidia-kernel-source and I found out that the device > files /dev/nvidia[ctl|0|1] were not created by any of the nvidia* > pack

/dev/nvidia* device files missing

2004-04-15 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, I had problems trying to use the (non-free) nvidia kernel module generated from nvidia-kernel-source and I found out that the device files /dev/nvidia[ctl|0|1] were not created by any of the nvidia* packages, and are also not created by the MAKEDEV script nor by the udev package. I'

Tape drive device files?

1999-07-12 Thread Jon Dallara
s using the device file ht0, but the device doesn't exist. What am I missing? What is the proceedure for creating the device files for this tape drive? Thanks in advance, Jon. -- Mailed using Netscape Communicator 4.6 running on Debian Linux 2.1begin:vcard n:Dallara;Jon tel;fax:408.970.

Re: device files

1999-07-03 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:44:04PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Have you tried looking in your /dev directory? > > John Cuson wrote: > > > > can anyone point me to where i might find a device file index of some sort? If you have the kernel source, try /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

Re: device files

1999-07-03 Thread ktb
Have you tried looking in your /dev directory? kent John Cuson wrote: > > hi- > > can anyone point me to where i might find a device file index of some sort? > > John Cuson > [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have > others

device files

1999-07-02 Thread John Cuson
hi- can anyone point me to where i might find a device file index of some sort? John Cuson [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." -- Groucho Marx