Re: Bug#327029: Non-functional with read-only /dev

2005-09-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 07:44:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 07:12:16PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:30 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > : > > > Tell the user to learn how UNIX works, and stop bitching. > > > AF_UNIX sockets must be created on

Re: Bug#327029: Non-functional with read-only /dev

2005-09-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 07:12:16PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:30 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > : > > Tell the user to learn how UNIX works, and stop bitching. > > AF_UNIX sockets must be created on a rw file system, and a symlink will > > not work. > > On FreeBSD it work

Re: Bug#327029: Non-functional with read-only /dev

2005-09-15 Thread SZALAY Attila
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:30 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: : > Tell the user to learn how UNIX works, and stop bitching. > AF_UNIX sockets must be created on a rw file system, and a symlink will > not work. On FreeBSD it works. So I think it's possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#327029: Non-functional with read-only /dev

2005-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 15, SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should I do? Tell the user to learn how UNIX works, and stop bitching. AF_UNIX sockets must be created on a rw file system, and a symlink will not work. So either he uses udev, or in some way makes his own writeable /dev. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Bug#327029: Non-functional with read-only /dev

2005-09-15 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All (and sorry for my English)! I have a bug about syslog-ng. This bug is a reincarnation of an already closed bug, but I afraid, if I close this too, another incarnation will be happened. The problem is, that nor sysklogd nor syslog-ng could operate if couldn't write to /dev. (They try to rem