From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 12:22:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from homemail.bjt.net (mailhub1.bjt.net [209.237.6.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B1637B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.fake.primenet.com [209.237.31.190] by homemail.bjt.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A0B0763005C; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:14:56 -0700 Received: from baz.fake.primenet.com (baz [10.0.0.3]) by foo.fake.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA89329; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bko@idiom.com) Received: from baz.fake.primenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baz.fake.primenet.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3BJLp0q004513; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bkogawa@baz.fake.primenet.com) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by baz.fake.primenet.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3BJLpfg004510; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:21:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Message-Id: <200204111921.g3BJLpfg004510@baz.fake.primenet.com> To: Nathan Mace , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/nsmb* In-Reply-To: <200203181637.LAA14376@uce55.uchaswv.edu> References: <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep> <200203181637.LAA14376@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:21:50 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://www.idiom.com/~bko/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message