On Sunday 10 February 2002 05:14 pm, Matthew Dalton wrote: > ben wrote: > > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone > > had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is > > it done? > > Are you sure you're reading the ls output right? > > In my /dev directory I have an entry: > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 13, 0 Feb 23 1999 xda > > The '0' here is the minor number. It has nothing to do with the date. > > > If you are reading the ls output correctly though, you could try > changing the date with "touch /dev/<file>". > thanks for the response, matthew. yeah, i was reading it correctly. touch does change the date but doesn't affect the inability to cat the file. cat still claims that it doesn't exist even though ls sees it.
ben
