I would like to run cpuspeed but the required directory is not present.

I need:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

I have:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1

So I try to create a directory cpufreq in cpu0 and cpu1:
mkdir cpufreq

and I get error:
mkdir: cannot create directory `cpufreq': Operation not permitted

?
I am logged in as root!

Anybody?

Does also anybody know who the creator is of the file scaling_governor?
Is that cpuspeed self?

Cheers,

JR

Post the output of ls -la in that directory. If you have a possible problem with rights, it helps to see what exactly they are
What distro are you running btw?

[root@ded cpu0]# ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 6 23:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jun 6 23:24 ..
[root@ded cpu0]#

I run Fedora 3.

Thnx for reply

I just remembered I don't think mkdir is going to work in a device directory...
What was it again? I think mknod, but I'm not sure.

The manual refers to creating a file... for mknod

cpufreq IS a directory I suppose.. ??

The problem ius probably that /sys is a special directory maintained by the kernel, like /proc (see this page for more info. Therefore, just created files and directories in there will not really work. You need to have the functionality that provides that file as a part of sysfs inside the kernel itself. Unfortunately, I've never really played with sysfs, so I can't help you, but I bet googling on that file name would turn up some useful results.

Thanks for your reply but thats to complicated stuff for me...

I understand its a virtual file system and thats all.