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Hi,<br />
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I'm currently working on a disaster recovery trial, part of which involves setting up a printer on Solaris 8.<br />
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I can look at the current live setup and try to mimic it but I'm not to sure exactly how to go about doing it.<br />
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The main problem is a file in /dev. Below is a snapshot of the file as it exists on the live server, but I'm not sure how to replicate it on the DR box.<br />
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crw-rw-rw- &nbsp; 1 root &nbsp; &nbsp; other &nbsp; &nbsp; 13, &nbsp;2 Jan 23 &nbsp;2006 databa01<br />
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I know this file is part of the printer setup but I don't know how to create &quot;character special&quot; files. Could you guys explain the significance of this file, what it does and how I create it?<br />
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Thanks
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Hi,

I'm currently working on a disaster recovery trial, part of which involves setting up a printer on Solaris 8.

I can look at the current live setup and try to mimic it but I'm not to sure exactly how to go about doing it.

The main problem is a file in /dev. Below is a snapshot of the file as it exists on the live server, but I'm not sure how to replicate it on the DR box.

crw-rw-rw-   1 root     other     13,  2 Jan 23  2006 databa01

I know this file is part of the printer setup but I don't know how to create "character special" files. Could you guys explain the significance of this file, what it does and how I create it?

Thanks

printer setup on Solaris 8

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.