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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS and syslogd
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:29:56 -0700 (MST)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@TFS.COM, ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com
In-Reply-To: <199604191752.TAA06829@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 19, 96 07:52:28 pm
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> > 	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.

Or register a portal to a dumb log concatenation program.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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