On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:22:16AM -0400, vom513 wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been playing with ansible to set up some of my NB machines they way I > like in an automated fashion. As of right now it?s working very well. I ran > this on 3 machiens yesterday, and ansible reported no failures. > > The one thing that reported success but didn?t actually happen was a MAKEDEV > for sd5. I have more drives on this machine than NetBSD created device nodes > for by default. My playbook section: > > - name: Setup RAID on ss20 - make devices for sd5 > become: yes > shell: | > /dev/MAKEDEV sd5 > when: ansible_facts['hostname'] == ?ss20? > > It seems like something wasn?t happy about the way this ran. It ran as root > (become: yes). And as I said ansible said it ran okay. But sd5 was not > actually created. > > Is there a nuance to the MAKEDEV script that I need to take into account to > make this successful ?
maybe cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV sd5 I think MAKEDEV create nodes in the current directory -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
