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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:48:27 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20070126174826.GA13730@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0701260840pef414f9h3e76fce789c06386@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <eeef1a4c0701260840pef414f9h3e76fce789c06386@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:40:24PM +0000, Freminlins wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I have a web server still running FreeBSD 4.7 which I want to update to
> FreeBSD 6.2. There are quite a few sites on this machine, and each of them
> has a chroot containing their own /dev. In their /dev are things like nul=
l,
> zero, random and so on.
>=20
> I don't really want to set up or mount numerous devfs file systems. I tri=
ed
> creating the the relevent files using mknod but they don't work. What is =
the
> best way to proceed?

Set up and mount numerous devfs file systems ;)

Really it's not hard, you just specify the devices you want with a
simple devfs(8) ruleset.

Kris

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