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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:52:25 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: comments on this change please.
Message-ID:  <326D4219.446B9B3D@whistle.com>
References:  <199610222030.WAA19354@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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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.



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