051102 Dale wrote: > I switched to udev a while back > and have some old devfs files left in /etc : > YES /etc/devfs.d > YES /etc/devfs.d/.keep > N/A /etc/modules.devfs.256 > N/A /etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh > N/A /etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh.dist > YES /etc/modprobe.devfs > N/A /etc/modprobe.devfs.256 > YES /etc/modprobe.devfs.old > YES /etc/modules.devfs > YES /etc/devfsd.conf > Can I get rid of these files and not kill anything? > I already unmerged devfsd.
I found similar stuff lying around after going over to Udev some time ago & have removed the items marked 'YES' & rebooted successfully; the others (N/A) are not present in my machine. /etc/devfs.d contained svgalib , which I hadn't remerged for a while, but after merging a newer version, it didn't restore that file (and tried to remove /etc/devfs.d/svgalib , which wasn't there); I tested Mplayer (which uses Svgalib) & it runs ok. As always for safety in such cases, I created a dir /etc/devfs-old , into which I moved the items I have dropped, so that I could easily restore them if there were a problem: after a few days, I'll probably remember to delete it. Holly's comments are sensible, as always, but it's a good idea to tidy things up every so often as part of understanding what's going on in your box, which is the real point of using Gentoo in the first place (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
