From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 19 11:22:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA22559 for current-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22551 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA04208; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 20:20:45 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03971; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 20:20:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA06829; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:52:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604191752.TAA06829@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DEVFS and syslogd To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:52:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: julian@TFS.COM, ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9604191407.AA10021@ginger.cb.att.com> from "ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com" at Apr 19, 96 10:07:16 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com wrote: > Added options DEVFS in my kernel. Added a line at the end of my fstab > "dev /dev devfs rw 0 0" everything seems to work except syslogd. When I boot > I get the error "syslogd: cannot create /dev/log: operation not supported" > Is this a known problem, did I do something wrong? It's a known problem. The clean solution would be moving /dev/log to /var/run/log, but this will break binary compatibility for statically linked old binaries. Next to this, we could create it under /var/run/log, but maintain a symlink to /dev/log for compatibility. Alas, devfs doesn't understand symlinks yet either. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)