Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod
Ah, the old local.start hack Apparently we should never use it for things like this. But we all do :-) As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you always remember that you put it there - future updates often end up doing strange things because of the contents of local.start, and the machine owner meanwhile has forgetten all about it... :-) I remember on an earlier installation I added the mknod command to local.start and when the PC booted there were dozens of lines in the boot console that said something like mknod: device already exists. But not this time. Ok, those versons should be fine. It's been a while since I used those (I use ~x86), but there's no harm in emerging them, commenting out the contents of local.start and seeing what happens IIRC the last time I updated baselayout it overwrote some important files and my system was un-usable. In all the excitement I failed to note what they were. Is there a list somewhere? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: IIRC the last time I updated baselayout it overwrote some important files and my system was un-usable. In all the excitement I failed to note what they were. That wasn't baselayout, it was you when running etc-update. Is there a list somewhere? Yes, etc-update shows it to your before asking what to do. Check the contents of each file before allowing it to be overwritten, and never, ever let etc-update overwrite etc/fstab, /etc/passwd or /etc/group. -- Neil Bothwick Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod
On 10/11/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the process? Another alternative to creating a script to automatically do what you're asking is to set the following flag to yes in conf.d/rc. The comments are pretty self explainatory. --- # UDEV OPTION: # Set to yes if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no --- -Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod
What baselayout and udev version are you using? Thanks Alan, I added the commands to local.start and that seems to have done the trick. But here's the baselayout and udev info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv baselayout These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5-r1 [1.11.15-r3] USE=unicode* -bootstrap -build -static 215 kB Total size of downloads: 215 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv udev These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-087-r1 USE=(-selinux) 0 kB -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod
On Thursday 12 October 2006 16:44, maxim wexler wrote: What baselayout and udev version are you using? Thanks Alan, I added the commands to local.start and that seems to have done the trick. Ah, the old local.start hack Apparently we should never use it for things like this. But we all do :-) As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you always remember that you put it there - future updates often end up doing strange things because of the contents of local.start, and the machine owner meanwhile has forgetten all about it... :-) But here's the baselayout and udev info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv baselayout These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5-r1 [1.11.15-r3] USE=unicode* -bootstrap -build -static 215 kB Total size of downloads: 215 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv udev These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-087-r1 USE=(-selinux) 0 kB Ok, those versons should be fine. It's been a while since I used those (I use ~x86), but there's no harm in emerging them, commenting out the contents of local.start and seeing what happens alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod chmod
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the process? udev is supposed to create these nodes and set the permissions. I don't have a ppp node as a) i don't use ppp anymore and b) when I did, kppp make the node itself. But I have a parport rule: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev $ grep -r parport * permissions.d/50-udev.permissions:parport*:root:lp:0660 rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==parport*, NAME=%k, GROUP=lp What baselayout and udev version are you using? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
