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Re: devfs and redhat 8.0

To: john.pellett@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: devfs and redhat 8.0
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:46:11 -0500 (EST)
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Hello!

> Has anybody been able to get devfs to work on redhat 8.0? Are there any
> tricks that I cannot seem to find?  I got it working on redhat 7.3 and
> the same steps, plus many more tries, to get it working don't work on
> redhat 8.0.

It would be better if you explained what the problem is.  I'm typing these
words on a Red Hat 8.0 system with devfs.

The steps are:

1) Install devfsd

2) Edit /etc/devfsd.conf to create the symlinks you need and set
permissions, e.g.

REGISTER ^input/mice$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname mouse
REGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom.$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrom
REGISTER ^sound/.*$ PERMISSIONS root.root 0666

3) Comment out /dev/pts in /etc/fstab

4) Install kernel with devfs support

5) Reboot

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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