Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-13 Thread Drew
On 10/11/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su > and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw > /dev/parport0. > > Where can I park these commands to automate

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > IIRC the last time I updated baselayout it overwrote > some important files and my system was un-usable. In > all the excitement I failed to note what they were. That wasn't baselayout, it was you when running etc-update. > Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-13 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ah, the old local.start hack > > Apparently we should never use it for things like > this. But we all > do :-) > > As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you > always remember that > you put it there - future updates often end up doing > strange things > because of the contents of l

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 October 2006 16:44, maxim wexler wrote: > > What baselayout and udev version are you using? > > Thanks Alan, > > I added the commands to local.start and that seems to > have done the trick. Ah, the old local.start hack Apparently we should never use it for things like this. But we

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-12 Thread maxim wexler
> What baselayout and udev version are you using? > Thanks Alan, I added the commands to local.start and that seems to have done the trick. But here's the baselayout and udev info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv baselayout These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:00, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su > and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw > /dev/parport0. > > Where can I park these commands to automate the > process? udev is supposed to create these nodes a

[gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod

2006-10-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, One of my morning chores after booting linux is to su and enter #mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and #chmod a+rw /dev/parport0. Where can I park these commands to automate the process? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the