.\" -*- nroff -*-
.TH MAKEDEV 8 "January 1995" "Version 1.4"
.SH NAME
MAKEDEV \- create and maintain filesystem device entries
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B MAKEDEV
[
.I \-vcdnhV
]
device or device-group name(s)
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B MAKEDEV
is used to maintain the special filesystem entries found in /dev. It
creates, or optionally removes, one or more device entries. The names 
and device numbers are defined in the DEVINFO file (q.v.);
site-specific configuration is found in the file MAKEDEV.cfg. 
.B MAKEDEV
itself has no knowledge of device information.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I -v 
Verbose mode; print out exactly what's being done.
.TP
.I -c
Create; create the specified devices. [default]
.TP
.I -d
Delete; remove the specified devices instead of creating them.
.TP
.I -n
Do nothing; only print what would be done. Implies -v as well.
.TP
.I -h
Print a usage message.
.TP
.I -V
Print the version string.
.SS " "
The following targets are special:
.TP
.I update
Run MAKEDEV in update mode. This reads the list of devices currently
available from /proc/devices, and updates all entries in /dev to match
the device numbers found there.
.TP
.I local
Run MAKEDEV to create local devices. This option is obsolete and just
prints a warning message. Use DEVINFO.local and MAKEDEV.cfg to achieve
the same results.
.SH FILES
.TP 20
.I /etc/devinfo
If ./DEVINFO is not found
.TP
.I /etc/devinfo.local
Alternate location for local info
.TP
.I /etc/makedev.cfg
If ./MAKEDEV.cfg is not found
.TP
.I MAKEDEV.cache
Cached data for `update'
.TP
.I /proc/devices
The kernel's list of current devices
.SH AUTHOR
David A. Holland (dholland@husc.harvard.edu)
.br
.br
Based on the older
.B MAKEDEV
shell script written by Nick Holloway.
Additional ideas were contributed by Rik Faith.
.SH NOTES
The LALR(1) parser generator used to build makedev.c from makedev.syn
is a commercial product. You won't be able to do a complete rebuild 
unless you have it.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR DEVINFO (5),
.BR MAKEDEV.cfg (5)