Package: makedev Version: 2.3.1-82 Hello,
since a while makedev checks for udev presence before it does anything. Unfortunately it does also detect udev when there is surely no udev currently present on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a Linux darkside 2.4.27 #1 Thu Dec 22 21:52:46 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps -ef | grep udev root 9107 2584 0 21:21 tty1 00:00:00 grep udev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /dev && /sbin/MAKEDEV raw1394 .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. As you can see, I'm currently running a 2.4 kernel, which quite surely has no udev running. This is also proven by the second command :) Nowadays, makedev refuses to run because there exists a /dev/.udev directory. However, this directory is created by the udev preinst script and is thus always there on a Debian system with udev package installed. Perhaps a better probe would be to check if /dev is mounted to a tmpfs or something like that. Perhaps there is also some udev tool to check it's presence, I don't know. Btw: It's also not a good idea to rely on ps -ef | grep udev because the udev package sometimes starts some udev daemon process on upgrades (for whatever reason) even if the system is not udev-compliant at all. regards Mario -- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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