Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:08:19 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: system running with DEVFS Message-ID: <199603200908.KAA07568@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319191330.249G-100000@ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Mar 19, 96 07:22:23 pm
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As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > One thing I'm curious about, though, is: > > freebsd# ls -lt /devfs/log /dev/log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 19 19:11 /dev/log > crw------- 2 root wheel 7, 0 Mar 19 19:11 /devfs/log > > The two log devices seem to be created differently, but I'm > wondering if it is something that should be worried about, or if it > doesn't matter? I'm assuming that the "correct" mode is the one in > /dev/log...but would like to confirm before I attempt to fix subr_log.c > to duplicate this properly. /dev/log is the "Unix domain socket" (s/Unix/Posix/, or s/Unix/Local/ if you like it better) for syslog. Being a socket, it can only be created at run-time by the application opening the socket. Most likely, it should be /var/run/log instead (like /var/run/printer). /devfs/log is an error. It should be /devfs/klog instead: j@uriah 1016% ls -l /dev/*log* crw------- 1 root wheel 7, 0 Feb 10 1995 /dev/klog srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 16 00:55 /dev/log= -- 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. ;-)
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