From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 14 17:30:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14267 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (root@bogslab.ucdavis.edu [128.120.162.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14249 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (root@myrtle1.bogs.org [198.137.203.39]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12506 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (greg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myrtle1.bogs.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA06992 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:28:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199803150128.RAA06992@myrtle1.bogs.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 16:33:29 PST." <13009.889922009@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:27:56 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <13009.889922009@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" cleopede: >> That sounds like a plan. :) Thanks. I merged the etc's on the machine >> quite happily after the previous -STABLE upgrade, but skipped >> /dev/MAKEDEV. ah well.. > >You'd hardly be the first to forget this - it's rather buried there >under /usr/src/etc/etc.i386. Actually, I've always wondered by MAKEDEV sits in /dev--of course, there is now a considerable tradition for it, but doesn't it make more sense to split it into a standard utility, "makedev", which lives in /sbin, plus a standard-but-modifiable database which lives in /etc called "devtab" and "devtab.local" or whatever? -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message