what distro? my Mandrake 8.2 box uses devfs, out the box... not sure what other distro's do. Redhat doesn't i know...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]$ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda8 on /usr2 type reiserfs (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) I've never had any problems with devfs on mandrake....but i don't have any joysticks (my boss might question that, haha...) -ray On 13 Feb 2003, Abbott Mujica wrote: > thats why i run linux... i hate devfs. its annoyin and its buggy with > joystick support so watch out! > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:53, Scott Harney wrote: > > John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > FreeBSD 5.0 uses devfs by default and therefore has no MAKEDEV. > > So for some reason your floppy drive isn't be automatically recognized. > > Perhaps dmesg holds clue > > > > > There is a /dev/MAKEDEV in OpenBSD, and googling around for "makedev > > > freebsd" returns results that make me think it is supposed to be > > > there. Was it possibly deleted? > > > > > > BTW: I love this list. I didn't know much about MAKEDEV and mknod > > > until reading the exchange between Mat and Abbott. A quick trip to man > > > and info pages and now I understand what MAKEDEV is (a script that > > > calls mknod to build special files, like for hardware devices such as > > > floppy drives). > > > > > > Mat, thanks for asking that. Abbott, thanks for being a smartass. ;) > > > > > > Thanks be to Xenu for free software!!! > > > > > > John > > > > > > On 12 Feb 2003 20:28:09 -0600, Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> yes, but why would there be no /dev/MAKEDEV?? > > >> > > >> --mat > > >> > > >> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 19:55, Abbott Mujica wrote: > > >>> lol makedev... you newb... man mknod and also read the devices tab in > > >>> bsd... its all well documented mah man > > > > > > -- > > > John Hebert > > > System Engineer > > > I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > > Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "...and one script to rule them all." > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
