mkfifo: No such file or directory

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +0000, Frank Staals wrote:
> I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my 
> intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this 
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo 
> /dev/smbprint but I got this :
> 
> bash-3.00# cd /dev/
> bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint
> mkfifo: smbprint: No such file or directory
> bash-3.00#
> 
> Why can't I make an extra fifo ?

You forgot to mention what version of FreeBSD you're running; if it's
5.x, you can't create random files in /dev because it's not a
general-purpose filesystem (i.e. the documentation you're reading is
out of date).

Kris
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