Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:29:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@TFS.COM, ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Subject: Re: DEVFS and syslogd Message-ID: <199604191929.MAA08792@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604191752.TAA06829@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 19, 96 07:52:28 pm
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> > Added options DEVFS in my kernel. Added a line at the end of my fstab > > "dev /dev devfs rw 0 0" everything seems to work except syslogd. When I boot > > I get the error "syslogd: cannot create /dev/log: operation not supported" > > Is this a known problem, did I do something wrong? > > It's a known problem. > > The clean solution would be moving /dev/log to /var/run/log, but this > will break binary compatibility for statically linked old binaries. > > Next to this, we could create it under /var/run/log, but maintain a > symlink to /dev/log for compatibility. Alas, devfs doesn't understand > symlinks yet either. Or register a portal to a dumb log concatenation program. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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