Re: No MAKEDEV in /dev
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:09:55AM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote: > FWIW, as a layman/FreeBSD newbie, I'd make a suggestion that the > manpage for MAKEDEV make it a bit more clear that having 'devfs' means > that MAKEDEV commands are no longer necessary because devfs will take > care of it automatically. Please submit a PR (send-pr) with your suggestion, preferably with a patch to the manpage source, or at least with your proposed rewording. Thanks! Kris pgpD1CJmfe8u0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No MAKEDEV in /dev
On Jan 1, 2005, at 11:46 PM, Rob wrote: Timothy Luoma wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp- troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/: sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3 but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/ Usually there are two entries for this in the documentation, one for 4.X and another for 5.X systems. On 5.3, see 'man MAKEDEV' and 'man devfs', and find out that MAKEDEV is deprecated by devfs. Ah, I guess this is a place where the documentation hasn't yet been updated. I didn't think to check the manpage until just after I sent my message. FWIW, as a layman/FreeBSD newbie, I'd make a suggestion that the manpage for MAKEDEV make it a bit more clear that having 'devfs' means that MAKEDEV commands are no longer necessary because devfs will take care of it automatically. I found myself trying to read 'man devfs' to figure out a way to manually make cuaa0. TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: No MAKEDEV in /dev
Timothy Luoma wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp- troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/: sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3 but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/ Usually there are two entries for this in the documentation, one for 4.X and another for 5.X systems. On 5.3, see 'man MAKEDEV' and 'man devfs', and find out that MAKEDEV is deprecated by devfs. Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
No MAKEDEV in /dev
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp- troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/: sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3 but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/ In fact, these are the only references to MAKEDEV on the entire machine: $ locate MAKEDEV /usr/ports/emulators/svr4_base/files/SVR4_MAKEDEV /usr/ports/net/rboot/files/patch-dev::MAKEDEV /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8.gz /usr/src/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 This seems fairly odd to me. How I can acquire MAKEDEV for this system (FreeBSD 5.3/Intel)? Thanks! TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
