From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problem with devfsd compilation
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:50:36 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010202005036.J160@pervalidus.dyndns.org> (raw)
Georg Nikodym wrote:
> Also, RH7's /etc/rc.sysinit can already start devfsd
> automatically with the following line:
> [ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -x /sbin/devfsd ] && /sbin/devfsd /dev
If devfs is mounted and devfsd exists, start devfsd.
> So, all you have to do is create an empty file /dev/.devfsd
Not true. I'm pretty sure /dev/.devfsd is only created when you
mount devfs at boot time or via mount -t devfs devfs /dev in
your system initialization script. Creating /dev/.devfsd with
touch defeats the purpose of /etc/rc.sysinit example.
crw------- 1 root root 144, 0 Dec 31 1969 .devfsd
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-02 2:50 Frédéric L. W. Meunier [this message]
2001-02-02 14:46 ` problem with devfsd compilation Georg Nikodym
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2001-02-01 19:26 Andris Pavenis
2001-02-01 18:37 hiren_mehta
2001-02-01 18:44 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-02-01 18:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-02 6:25 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-01 18:52 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-02-02 8:21 ` Michael B. Trausch
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