Re: How to delete /dev/lirc/serial

[Ville V. <vi...@mo...>]

Here is error message:

[root@localhost Autostart]# rm /dev/lirc/serial
rm: remove character special file `/dev/lirc/serial'? y
rm: cannot remove `/dev/lirc/serial': Operation not permitted

Ryan Voots wrote:

>What error do you get when you try to do an
># rm /dev/lirc/serial
>
>from a root console?
>
>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:50:58 +0200
>"Ville Virtanen" <vi...@mo...>  Add to Address Book wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>Somehow I cannot delete /dev/lirc/serial. I try to build lirc from 
>>sources, but first I have to delete /dev/lirc/serial device from 
>>/dev/lirc directory! How to do it?
>>
>>Here is a content of my /dev/lirc directory
>>
>>drw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 ./
>>drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 ../
>>crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      61,   0 Jan  1  1970 serial
>>
>>There is also lircm defined:
>>
>>[root@localhost dev]# ls -la lir*
>>prw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan  4 23:20 lircm|
>>
>>I can't build from sources if /dev/lirc/serial is still around. But I 
>>cannot delete it!
>>
>>-Ville-
>>
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