From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 11 18:35: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC9037B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2C2Ypw12869; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:34:51 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103120234.f2C2Ypw12869@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Rich Morin Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:34:49 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: /var/run/dev.db ? Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <200103120215.SAA86150@idiom.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Mar 2001, at 18:15, Rich Morin wrote: > > > I just upgraded to 4.3-BETA, and at boot got a warning about > > "/var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory" when I rebooted. > > It now exists, and is a berkeley db file. > > > > Could someone tell me what this file is, and what creates it? > > The FreeBSD Browser (http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html) is intended > to answer exactly that sort of question. And, amazingly enough, it > has an answer in this case: > > http://www.cfcl.com/md/fb/42/var/run/dev.db Thanks for that. I knew about the FreeBSD Browser, but this was the first practical example I'd seen for it. I now have a greater appreciation of what this application will do. I can certainly see how it will be useful. Thanks. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message