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Re: /dev/null coming up as chmod 600 at boot?

To: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: /dev/null coming up as chmod 600 at boot?
From: Nic Doye <nic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Apr 2002 15:29:28 +0100
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On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 14:46, Mike Burger wrote:

> I thought about devfs, too, but rpm -q devfs came up with nothing.
> 
> On the off chance, just now, I decided to "rpm -qa | grep devfs" and it 
> came up with devfsd-1.3.11-sgi.
> 
> I'm not showing any processes, though, with "devfs" in the name.
> 
> I guess I can rpm -e devfsd and see if that helps.  I suppose devfsd was 
> installed when I did the RH7.1 + SGI installation.

pyewacket Red Hat 7.2 athlon $ rpm -q devfsd
devfsd-1.3.18-nic_4
pyewacket Red Hat 7.2 athlon $ df  /dev
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devfs                        0         0         0   -  /dev
pyewacket Red Hat 7.2 athlon $ ps -deaf | grep devfs
root        14     1  0 09:19 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev
nic      10811 10736  0 15:24 pts/1    00:00:00 grep devfs

I suspect if ps isn't showing devfsd as running, I guess you'll be OK,
but switching between devfs and non-devfs can be a non-trivial
operation. (ie. your machine may not boot correctly). So I'd check by
doing running 'mount' (or 'df') just in case.

nic


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