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Problem uploading video



Doug Sweetser wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I followed the directions to the letter, the power of cut and pasting,
> but the problem remained.  One odd observation: when I logged back
> in, the device raw1394 was gone.  I would have thought thess commands
> run as root:
> 
> 
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
>>chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
>>ls -l /dev/raw1394
> 
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     171,   0 Mar 24 06:54 /dev/raw1394
> 
> would make a "permanent" device.  I just rebooted again, and it is
> definitely not there:
> 
> 
>>ls -l /dev/raw1394
> 
> ls: /dev/raw1394: No such file or directory
> 
> Do I need to write a script to create the device every time?
> 
> doug
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If your system is using udev, then you may need to at a line to rc.local 
to make that device at every reboot. I find the udev man pages almost 
unintelligible.

till next
	Jim




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