From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 22:41:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA16218 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA16207 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03156; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Joel Gwynn cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken /sys link In-Reply-To: <3401071B.12ED@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Joel Gwynn wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I'm trying to get my PCMCIA modem working > on COM2. When I start up, the kernel finds si0, but si1. So, as per > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook154.html#372 > I tried to reconfigure my kernel. When I try to cd to /sys/i386/conf to > edit GENERICAH, the directory /sys doesn't exist. When I look at /sys > using tkdesk, it tells me that /sys is a broken link. How did it get > broken? How can I fix it? Does it matter? It's evil that things use that symlink. To rebuild it, do as root: rm /sys ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo