Bdale Garbee writes in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20:08:53 Wednesday 6 October 1999): > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in > > it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of > > /dev. > > The makedev package creates devices in the current working directory. This > has > been the behavior of all makedev packages I know of except for the Debian 1.6 > series, now defunct for over a year. > > Bdale
The makedev.postinst script creates a script in /etc/rc.boot/makedev which creates new pty masters and slaves, overwriting the old ones, if ones with old major numbers are found. I believe that the list of old devices didn't have "/dev/" in it, so that at reboot, the new devices ended up in /. It's hard for me to double-check now, because I had upgraded makedev by the time I got to sending the bug report. However, I had 128 ptys in /, and the ptys in /dev were still old-style, and I traced the preceding logic when I had the old makedev. I should have been more explicit. But the bug report was against the web site, not makedev, which is fixed in any case now. -- Raj Manandhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (256) 922-1512 x2900
