MAKEDEV(8) — RISC
Name
MAKEDEV − makes system special files
Syntax
/dev/MAKEDEV device-name?...
Description
The MAKEDEV shell script is normally used to install special files. It resides in the /dev directory, the normal location of special files. Arguments to MAKEDEV are usually of the form device-name? where device-name is one of the supported devices listed in Section 4 of the ULTRIX Reference Pages and ? is a logical unit number. A few special arguments create assorted collections of devices and are listed below.
DECstation*Creates a DECstation specific setup.
stdCreates all standard devices for all systems.
localCreates those devices specific to the local site. This request causes the shell file /dev/MAKEDEV.local to be executed. Site specific commands, such as those used to setup dialup lines as ttyd?, should be included in this file.
Because all devices are created using mknod(,), this shell script is useful only to the superuser.
Diagnostics
Either self-explanatory, or generated by one of the programs called from the script. Use sh -x MAKEDEV in case of trouble.