Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:48:27 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070126174826.GA13730@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0701260840pef414f9h3e76fce789c06386@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:40:24PM +0000, Freminlins wrote: > Hello, > > I have a web server still running FreeBSD 4.7 which I want to update to > FreeBSD 6.2. There are quite a few sites on this machine, and each of them > has a chroot containing their own /dev. In their /dev are things like null, > zero, random and so on. > > I don't really want to set up or mount numerous devfs file systems. I tried > creating the the relevent files using mknod but they don't work. What is the > best way to proceed? Set up and mount numerous devfs file systems ;) Really it's not hard, you just specify the devices you want with a simple devfs(8) ruleset. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFuj7qWry0BWjoQKURAhQFAJ97DCwT2sTb8fuyLk9SQJ6wTp7WcACgtXHL bi7dCYEREZHWvJVPSz+jQMU= =YOFJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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