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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