From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 28 11:08:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23641 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23635 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10905; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:08:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA01118; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:31:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809281031.LAA01118@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland), rotel@indigo.ie, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:09:58 -0000." <199809272109.OAA29425@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:31:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > Or better yet: > > # mknod wd0 c 21 1 > mknod: Command not found. > # > > (Yes, I know you will still need "mknod" to build an NFS "/dev" for > primitive OS's like DEC UNIX and Linux; don't take everything so > seriously!). Better still: # mknod wd0 c 21 1 Usage: mknod [-q] device... # mknod wd0 Warning: ``.'' isn't a DEVFS: device nodes may become invalid after a reboot # mknod -q rsa0 cuaa0 > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message