If it's fifos you need then the following will generate them for you.
(At least it works under SUN OS 4.1.3)
I lost mine too when using a tar file to place GRASS on a new disk
and the following was extracted from the GISGEN.sh script. Run under
the Bourne shell with the account that GRASS was created from.
Wayne Gibson
Oregon State University
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for i in a b
do
fifo=0
while test $fifo -lt 21
do
if test ! -f $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
then
/etc/mknod $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i p
chmod 0666 $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
echo $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i created
fi
fifo=`expr $fifo + 1`
done
done
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>
>So I got past that problem. But I get another error.
>
>Graph_Set: can't open
>Error - Can't set up pipe to graphics device.
>Problem selecting x0. Will try once more
>Error - Can't set up pipe to graphics device.
>
>I get that error for both x0 and x1. This is using d.mon on Solaris2.3 from
>the moon binary release. Any more words of wisdom?
>
>-Stephen Dzurenko
> e-mail: steve@ocesun1.oce.uri.eduStephen,
Did you rebuild the fifos? It is my understatnding that they get "lost" in
a tar. Someone else will have to post on how to do that, but it is an
operating system command.(The "fifos" are mysterious little beings that live in the device
directories of GRASS code and binaries, where they slow down X signals in
order to collect tolls or something. Then they let the signals pass -- that
why
it takes so long for things to draw, etc.
)
Ron T - Estes Park, CO - ront@niwot.cnr.colostate.edu