On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: > I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it > does not exist > > After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a > root terminal creates the device and that it works. > > "mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0" > > Now I would like the device to be created automatically on boot up so I > have put the above command as the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, > unfortunately nothing happens ie the device is not created. > > anyone know how I can create /dev/raw1394 automatically > > TIA
Maybe you can create an alias in bash environment instead? It's not automatically,. but saves you from typing the whole command. as root, put this in /root/.bashrc alias mycamera=""mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0" -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 04:31:02 up 38 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key
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