Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:21:50 -0700 From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bko@idiom.com> To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/nsmb* Message-ID: <200204111921.g3BJLpfg004510@baz.fake.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200203181637.LAA14376@uce55.uchaswv.edu> References: <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep> <200203181637.LAA14376@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions, you wrote: > smb share. i think i know what the problem is, and i guess i > deserve it. you guys are gonna freak out about this. when i > upgraded from 4.4 to 4.5 i did not run mergemaster or remakes the > devices. why?! you might ask. well the 1st time i did it when i > was just starting to use freebsd, it mergemaster hosed my /etc > directroy beyond repair. i had made a backup of it, but i couldn't > even get into single user mode to restore it. so i had to format > the drive. > > i'm entirely sure that part of my problem is in the fact that i havn't remade > all of my devices since i upgraded to 4.5. what do i need to do? "sh > MAKEDEV all"??? also, yes i made sure that i was not using the bash seel to > try and make the device. can someone help me? Mergemaster also copies the new MAKEDEV into /dev . so, you should probably find the copy from your source tree and copy to dev first. I think it's in /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV . -- bryan k ogawa <bko@idiom.com> http://www.idiom.com/~bko/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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