From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 15:09:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA09060 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09050 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14353; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <326D4219.446B9B3D@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:52:25 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch CC: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: comments on this change please. References: <199610222030.WAA19354@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As Julian Elischer wrote: > > > yeah I guess so, though once syslogd has been run r/w it's there.. :) > > Hmpf. Nope. (I've missed this in your diff.) Don't do _this_! > > You don't expect the termcap library to create the /etc/termcap link. > You shouldn't expect syslogd to create the /dev/log link, either. > That's a matter of the system installation (or upgrade procedure for > those tracking -current). I'd rather have it for the transition period at least.. > If the symlink is there, i wouldn't expect surprises. sure and I'm cutting back on 'maintanance calls' by checking that it's there.. It's transition code and I expect it to go away.