Re: [Sheflug] Unknown device / DevFS

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    Alex> On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 21:10, Alex Hudson wrote:
    >> to share a device. But devfsd only sets it up as a symlink, and
    >> therefore this is annoying to me.

    Alex> In case anyone was interested, this has annoyed me for the
    Alex> last time, I finally did something about it:

    Alex> cd /etc/devfsd perl -p -i'.orig' -e
    Alex> 's/^(.+)cdroms(.+)$/#$1cdroms$2/' devfsd.conf echo 'cdrom b
    Alex> 22 0 0 0 0644' >> devices

Perl rocks :-)

I'm slowly starting to learn it, but I'm still not at the stage where
I'd be messing with device files :-)

What's the joy of devFS?

I thought it was a bit of a development/experimental system?

Baz.


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