Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 06:38:13 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP Message-ID: <199606061038.GAA11257@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 06 Jun 1996 11:50:54 %2B0930. <199606060220.LAA13886@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY stands accused of saying: > > > > > > Something is wrong, but not in 2.2 source. From 2.2 MAKEDEV: > > > mknod tty c 1 0; chmod 666 tty; chown root.wheel tty > > > It seems that something wrong happens with distribution making. > > > > Yup, that's not the way they came out of the tar file. I used --unlink > > to remove the 2.1 files before extracting the SNAP version. > > Ah. You didn't run the 2.2 installer, you just unpacked the distfiles? Guilty. Next you're going to tell me I should have read the instructions. :-) > > None of the archivers in use (tar, cpio, pax) can handle the large minor > numbers used by some devices in /dev, which is why the installer > remakes everything after it's unpacked it. > > Note also that your /etc/sysconfig will be out of sync with the /etc/rc* > files because it's automagically generated by the installer. > > > Yup, /.cshrc is the culprit. > > That should be /root/.cshrc, surely? Same thing. One is linked to the other. That must be the way they came out of the tar file. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY
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