Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world brokenbuilding fortunes ) )

1999-12-15 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is that it needs a persistent backing store for this. Sounds like this C program

Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world brokenbuilding fortunes ) )

1999-12-15 Thread Matthew Jacob
Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init? Not really... The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air... The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a program when something happens. This could be done with a getty like daemon too of

Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world brokenbuilding fortunes ) )

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Dec-16 07:48:48 +1100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And we don't really need YAD when we have init hanging around doing nothing for its keep anyway... I beg to differ. To quote init(8): The role of init is so critical that if it dies, the system will reboot

Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world brokenbuilding fortunes ) )

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Dec-16 10:07:49 +1100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jeremy writes : It can do that now. Add the following lines to /etc/ttys: sshd "/usr/local/sbin/sshd" none on inetd "/usr/sbin/inetd -Ww" none on syslogd "/usr/sbin/syslogd" none