Re: REPOST: null device in linux jail root
I'll take a guess here and say you should have used / The linux port is installed in /compat/linux i would assume the jail is /compat/linux. Therefore you could run the command from /. On Dec 16, 2003, at 2:15 PM, Charles Howse wrote: Surely, *someone* who reads this list has upgraded the linux_base port, and figured out the proper way to respond to this prompt. ___ Hi, I installed Linux compatibility when I installed FBSD 4.8, but I've never really done anything with it. While portupgrading , I was presented with a prompt that I don't know how to respond to: You need to create the null device in your jail root environment. Run the following commands outside the jail root environment, and then press enter: mkdir -m 0755 -p Jail Root dir/dev rm -f Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null mknod Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2 chmod 666 Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null I found that this prompt comes from the makefile in the linux-base port, which I don't have access to at the moment, so I can't quote it exactly. Clueless, I just pressed enter at the prompt, thinking I could always go back and do it later, or deinstall the port and reinstall it when I learn what to do. I know what a jail is, but how do I know what my Jail Root dir is? Also, why the double slashes in the last 3 lines? What do they mean? What is the proper way to deal with this prompt? -- Thanks, Charles ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux.' -- Bill Joy, Wired Article 2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
REPOST: null device in linux jail root
Surely, *someone* who reads this list has upgraded the linux_base port, and figured out the proper way to respond to this prompt. ___ Hi, I installed Linux compatibility when I installed FBSD 4.8, but I've never really done anything with it. While portupgrading , I was presented with a prompt that I don't know how to respond to: You need to create the null device in your jail root environment. Run the following commands outside the jail root environment, and then press enter: mkdir -m 0755 -p Jail Root dir/dev rm -f Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null mknod Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2 chmod 666 Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null I found that this prompt comes from the makefile in the linux-base port, which I don't have access to at the moment, so I can't quote it exactly. Clueless, I just pressed enter at the prompt, thinking I could always go back and do it later, or deinstall the port and reinstall it when I learn what to do. I know what a jail is, but how do I know what my Jail Root dir is? Also, why the double slashes in the last 3 lines? What do they mean? What is the proper way to deal with this prompt? -- Thanks, Charles ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: REPOST: null device in linux jail root
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: Surely, *someone* who reads this list has upgraded the linux_base port, and figured out the proper way to respond to this prompt. I apply for item A but not item B -- in other words, I also don't have a clue why this happened to me today on my -CURRENT machine (so it's not -STABLE only). From my reading of the port Makefile, it appears that it first creates the device node and then tests to see if it exists, but apparently that test fails -- the message *should* be harmless, but the best thing to do is to make the maintainer of the port aware of the problem, which in this case is the general ports list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- CC'd. --Stijn [rest of email quoted for reference, but please don't top post next time] ___ Hi, I installed Linux compatibility when I installed FBSD 4.8, but I've never really done anything with it. While portupgrading , I was presented with a prompt that I don't know how to respond to: You need to create the null device in your jail root environment. Run the following commands outside the jail root environment, and then press enter: mkdir -m 0755 -p Jail Root dir/dev rm -f Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null mknod Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2 chmod 666 Jail Root dir//compat/linux/dev/null I found that this prompt comes from the makefile in the linux-base port, which I don't have access to at the moment, so I can't quote it exactly. Clueless, I just pressed enter at the prompt, thinking I could always go back and do it later, or deinstall the port and reinstall it when I learn what to do. ? I know what a jail is, but how do I know what my Jail Root dir is? Also, why the double slashes in the last 3 lines? ?What do they mean? What is the proper way to deal with this prompt? -- Thanks, Charles -- Linux has many different distributions, meaning that you can probably find one that is exactly what you want (I even found one that looked like a Unix system). -- Mike Meyer, from a posting at [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
