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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos,

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 02:56, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2005-02-01 05:05, Doug B wrote:
> > > It really should be there. You could recreate it. My 9.1 has:
> > > brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 68 2004-08-15 14:00 /dev/hdd4
> >
> > Hi Carlos,
> >
> > For whatever reason with 9.2, SuSE doesn't create the device hdx4
> > where the zip drive is attached.  Mine is /dev/hdb and there is no
> > /dev/hdb4.
> > Several people have reported this on various list/forums.
>
> Weird.
>
> > When I first started looking for an answer, I found the suggestion
> > to create the /dev/hdx4.  They put a script in boot.local to do
> > this every boot.  It didn't work for me
>
> It wasn't created, or if created did not work?
>
> Did anybody try setting the sticky bit?

That doesn't seem likely to help. Presumably "/dev" is owned by and only 
writable by root, so making it sticky isn't going to have any real 
effect. Root was the only user that could have removed an entry there 
and will still be able to even if the directory is marked sticky.


> ...
>
> --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos Robinson


Randall Schulz