On Sunday 13 March 2005 04:13, SnapafunFrank wrote: > I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same > time, but how do I stop devfs ? > > Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at > start up, but still it runs. > > Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same > thing ~ anyone ?
> Here's what I see using: > > $ top > <...snip...> > 214 root 15 0 1872 624 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.99 > devfsd 282 root 6 -10 80 0 12 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 > udevd <...snip...> > > Are all the above statements correct ? > > If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through > reboots ? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware > of which one.) > > And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of > leaving devfs turned off ? > > The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive > - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from > it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage > because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the > files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the > files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped > the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to > have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within > /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though > all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried > to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was > within that session. > > ( I used the > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_si >ngle/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 > > > to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) Funny thing is, on my system there's no devfs but nevertheless the devfsd is running as well as udev : kaj]$ rpm -qa | grep devfs devfsd-1.3.25-38mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]$ I have done endless permutations of devfs, devfsd, magicdev, udev, and supermount, but my USB devices (scanner, external hard drive, mp3 player and camera) still combat each other in a seemingly random way. So far I've come to the conclusion that one or two of those daemons (or is it devils ?) are written by Microsoft : my /etc/fstab keeps changing each time a USB device gets inserted, especially the umask=0022 statement. This of course prevents me as a ordinary user to write to the device. I have to unmount it as root, edit my fstab to umask=0 and remount. Drives me crazy. So, if someone here could point us to an explanation, I certainly would be happy. Good weekend, all. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*
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