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Re: Error on boot and host0 business

To: lembark@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Error on boot and host0 business
From: Robert <racsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Jan 2003 16:37:51 -0500
Cc: Devfs <devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 23:52, Steven Lembark wrote:
> -- Robert <racsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >
> >> Bug in your devfsd.comf file. Have you modified/added any
> >> entries to it?
> >>
> >
> > Nope, not at all.  I had trouble with another issue before, and someone
> > told me that I had to modify this file, but when I looked at it, it was
> > so cryptic that I knew I didn't understand it well enough, and left it
> > alone.
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> Less cryptic than it might seem at first glance. Trick
> is to start from a working example. e.g., here is the
> entry for my tape drive. "/dev/tapes/tape0/mt" is what
> I want "/dev/tape" to look like. Paths are relative to
> /dev/ (or whatever your mount point is). You can LOOKUP
> a new device, REGISTER the "real" device as the "standard"
> device or UNREGISTER the device. From there the logic is
> not all that complicated:
> 
> LOOKUP                ^tape$                          CFUNCTION GLOBAL 
> symlink tapes/tape0/mt tape
> REGISTER      ^tapes/tape0/mt$        CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink tapes/tape0/mt 
> tape
> UNREGISTER    ^tapes/tape0/mt$        CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink tape
> 
> 
> Either way, you still have a bug in your devfsd.conf file.
> 
> --
> Steven Lembark                               2930 W. Palmer
> Workhorse Computing                       Chicago, IL 60647
>                                             +1 773 252 1080

I know I didn't modify anything, but with your information, let me look
that file over and get back to you.  Thanks for helping out, regardless.

-- 
Robert <racsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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