From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 21 10:47:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA18120 for current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18113 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:46:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) id NAA29541; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:45:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:45:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" In-Reply-To: <199603211616.IAA23813@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > rm /dev/log > rm /dev/klog Since I don't really want to find out I'm wrong by actually testing this...but so far as I can tell, /dev/log and /dev/klog are used by syslogd only. When I started doing the modifications to the devfs code, /dev/klog wasn't being created, yet the system was booting up to a login prompt without any problems. As well, /dev/log itself was being created as a device instead of as a socket, again causing syslogd to not run, but not seeming to affect anything else. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc