On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 06:36:58PM +0530, Bharat Ale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've deleted /dev/ttyS0 (made the mistake : ln -sf /dev/modem /dev/ttyS0) so
> it was catch 22.
> Now how do I restore it ?
>
> I tried to copy from Linux CD but apparently special files like these cannot
> be copied 'normally'. How do I copy these kind o files.
>
>
> Also, I've deleted /var/spool/mai/root file so that I cannot read mail (pine
> says invalid file format)
>
> So how do I recreate this file ?
>
> Bharat
>
You can create using MAKEDEV
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cd /dev
./MAKEDEV ttyS0
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Bye
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Venkatesh. K
Systems Engineer
Indus Valley
Bangalore
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