I have installed RH linux 9.0 in my PC.I accidentally deleted /dev/rtc
and I get rtc ioctl failure messages during startup and shutdown.. can
anybody tell me how to fix this ?

Regards,
Vijay.

samratvijay@gmail.com wrote:
> I have installed RH linux 9.0 in my PC.I accidentally deleted /dev/rtc
> and I get rtc ioctl failure messages during startup and shutdown.. can
> anybody tell me how to fix this ?

Using mknod as root:

# mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135

See the file 'device.txt' in the Linux source tree and the man page for
mknod(1).

Ciao
Giovanni
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samratvijay@gmail.com wrote:
> I have installed RH linux 9.0 in my PC.I accidentally deleted /dev/rtc
> and I get rtc ioctl failure messages during startup and shutdown.. can
> anybody tell me how to fix this ?

Log in or su to root

Enter the following commands:
mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135
chown root:root /dev/rtc
chmod a=rw /dev/rtc


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