Marc Wilson said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:01:12PM -0800: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Minor nit: netatalk requires a device node in /var to support Appletalk > > printing. Admittedly, for most people, this is not an issue. > > Not arguing, but what device node? Where? When did this start? What > creates it? The package doesn't own any files in /var, and I can't see > anywhere in its postinst that it creates such a node. It may not require it anymore. A while back, I had to setup Appletalk printing to a Linux server (using papd), and it required that every papd printer spool have its own null device. If you only have one printer, then /dev/null was fine; if you had more, the docs suggested making a null device in each spool.
I don't know if this is still necessary, but as I said; it certainly doesn't affect many people, and you probably can place all of the null device files into /dev anyway. M
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