> > can anyone tell me wtf I'm missing in the commands below? > > > > # mkdir foo > > # cd foo > > # mkdir bin dev > > # cp -p /bin/cat bin > > # cd dev > > # /dev/MAKEDEV std > > # cd .. > > # chroot . /bin/cat /dev/stdin > > cat: /dev/stdin: Device not configured > > > > The reason I ask is that I need to run tar -czf within a chroot > > environment, but gzip(1) tries to open /dev/stdin and fails (as the > > contrived invocation of cat(1) in the example above). > > > > Ciao, > > Kili > > Are you on a partition with nodev set?
Oh, and that is the other reason ;)