>>> Matthias Kilian 24-Feb-06 21:38 >>> > > Hi, > > can anyone tell me wtf I'm missing in the commands below? > > # mkdir foo > # cd foo > # mkdir bin dev > # cp -p /bin/cat bin > # cd dev > # /dev/MAKEDEV std > # cd .. > # chroot . /bin/cat /dev/stdin > cat: /dev/stdin: Device not configured > > The reason I ask is that I need to run tar -czf within a chroot > environment, but gzip(1) tries to open /dev/stdin and fails (as the > contrived invocation of cat(1) in the example above). > > Ciao, > Kili
Are you on a partition with nodev set? Tom
