Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 00:09:55 -0500 From: Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No MAKEDEV in /dev Message-ID: <8AA8E33B-5C7C-11D9-A9DC-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> In-Reply-To: <41D77CC0.4090800@yahoo.com> References: <3D374C4E-5C78-11D9-A9DC-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> <41D77CC0.4090800@yahoo.com>
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On Jan 1, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Rob wrote: > Timothy Luoma wrote: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp- >> troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/: >> sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3 >> but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/ > > Usually there are two entries for this in the documentation, > one for 4.X and another for 5.X systems. > > On 5.3, see 'man MAKEDEV' and 'man devfs', and find out > that MAKEDEV is deprecated by devfs. Ah, I guess this is a place where the documentation hasn't yet been updated. I didn't think to check the manpage until just after I sent my message. FWIW, as a layman/FreeBSD newbie, I'd make a suggestion that the manpage for MAKEDEV make it a bit more clear that having 'devfs' means that MAKEDEV commands are no longer necessary because devfs will take care of it automatically. I found myself trying to read 'man devfs' to figure out a way to manually make cuaa0. TjL
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