From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-amd64+bounces-9952-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1KfzcW-0000k9-Ew for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:11:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A381AE0294; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (adsl9-10.ath.forthnet.gr [77.49.200.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525A9E0294 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laptop.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2E61D5E5 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:11:09 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (dwarfy.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.13]) by laptop.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5ECA3E6 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:11:08 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <48D12C1C.3030508@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:11:08 +0300 From: Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080805) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-amd64.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: hardware clock often doesn't sync to system on shutdown References: <48CA0929.60003@asyr.hopto.org> <pan.2008.09.14.08.44.00@cox.net> <48CD973B.6080308@asyr.hopto.org> <pan.2008.09.15.08.49.27@cox.net> <48CE7530.2090909@asyr.hopto.org> <48CE77C9.7090605@getdesigned.at> <48CE7EAE.9080404@asyr.hopto.org> <pan.2008.09.15.22.31.47@cox.net> <48CFB464.8030008@asyr.hopto.org> <pan.2008.09.16.22.55.21@cox.net> <gaq3d0$d0j$1@ger.gmane.org> <48D0936E.6070907@asyr.hopto.org> <20080917073448.15fcd259@mandalor.homelinux.net> In-Reply-To: <20080917073448.15fcd259@mandalor.homelinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: d362da9f-3b1b-4409-86c7-3f0273e15fab X-Archives-Hash: 81f1345b6b41a8cf404ad2572dc0887b on 09/17/2008 04:34 PM Conway S. Smith wrote the following: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:19:42 +0300 > Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: > >> on 09/17/2008 08:08 AM ABCD wrote the following: >> >>> Duncan wrote: >>> >>>> But make sure you either have a copy of the device node or know >>>> how to create one, before you do. >>>> >>> To recreate /dev/null, do (as root): >>> >>> # mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 >>> >>> >> Thank you ABCD and Duncan. >> I managed to have a backup of /dev/null and /dev/console as /null >> and /console. :-) >> >> >> > Did you need the backups (did your /etc/adjtime -> /dev/null symlink > break /dev/null)? > > > Conway S. Smith > > No, at least so far everything seems good: # ls -l /dev/null /null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2008-09-17 21:41 /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2008-09-17 10:59 /null # ls -l /dev/console /console crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2008-09-17 08:00 /console crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2008-09-17 18:42 /dev/console #