On Friday 01 February 2002 22.18, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote:

Hi:

I am wondering if this is a bug:

crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 24 ago 30 16:30 /dev/tty3 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 24 ago 30 16:30 /dev/tty4 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 24 ago 30 16:30 /dev/tty5 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 24 ago 30 16:30 /dev/tty6

Now, I am unable to erase them, nor to overwrite them with /dev/MAKEDEV

Kernel is 2.4.7-10 and filesystem is ext3

Could this be a bug???

I am going for kernel recompile (I am getting 2.4.16 from kernel.org right now).. cause I didnt find any other way to restore those minor numbers.

I booted from a floppy as well and couldnt remove them neither (got "Operation not permitted" message).

Any suggestion? Besides cd / ; rm -rf / :-)

Thanks!

Raul

Hang about, you're using redhat not suse. redhat uses devfs. Those ttys aren't real files, they're virtual. Can't help you further since I've never used devfs, but that's something for you to look at regards Anders