Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:27:56 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <199803150128.RAA06992@myrtle1.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 16:33:29 PST." <13009.889922009@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <13009.889922009@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" cleopede: >> That sounds like a plan. :) Thanks. I merged the etc's on the machine >> quite happily after the previous -STABLE upgrade, but skipped >> /dev/MAKEDEV. ah well.. > >You'd hardly be the first to forget this - it's rather buried there >under /usr/src/etc/etc.i386. Actually, I've always wondered by MAKEDEV sits in /dev--of course, there is now a considerable tradition for it, but doesn't it make more sense to split it into a standard utility, "makedev", which lives in /sbin, plus a standard-but-modifiable database which lives in /etc called "devtab" and "devtab.local" or whatever? -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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