On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 12:57, JW wrote:
I want to explore the devfs (device file system), now that I've got my 2.4.17 kernel going OK.
I know nothing about devfsd but isn't /etc/init.d/boot.local for things just like this?
Thanks for your thoughts, Jon. However, a colleague was suggesting that the devfsd really should be started *really* early on. He's a Slackware user (at home), and at work we've got RedHat boxes; all of these use a different boot-up scheme, so I can't straight-way just copy something :-O :-( Because it's a filesystem thingy, and virtualizes/replaces all those entries in your /dev directory, it seems sensible to get the devfsd going before pretty much *anything* tries to access anything connected with /dev. Or, pretty much before there's even much harddrive activity... I was really hoping that someone could explicitly tell me why, or where the devfsd should go. I'll just give it a try tonight. Worst case: I burn the house down. I'd better pick up some marshmallows and wieners on the way home just in case... -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng., Member IEEE Technical University of B.C. - Research Lab Engineer mailto:gordon.pritchard@techbc.ca direct phone: 604-586-6186