As a side bar to this conversation... I discovered that the easiest way to get the vmcp module to load at boot time with SLES 9 is to add it to the variable MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT in the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel as in: MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="vmcp" Then the boot script boot.loadmodules (assuming it is enabled) will do it, and udev will automatically create the device.
I added this to a few scripts that used hcp: if [ -x /usr/bin/vmcp -a -f /sys/class/misc/vmcp/dev ]; then hcpbin=/usr/bin/vmcp elif [ -x /sbin/hcp ]; then hcpbin=/sbin/hcp elif [ -x /usr/sbin/hcp ]; then hcpbin=/usr/sbin/hcp else exit 0 fi -- Bruce Hayden IBM Global Services zSeries Linux Endicott, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
