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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>: 
> Hi, 
>  
> I converted to /dev/ system last night. Don't completely know whats  
> going on but I ran into trouble. 
>  
> I can't cast spells because it can't untar them properly, I noticed when  
> I did a sorcery update it mentioned a tar error about not finding  
> /dev/stdin, which doesn't exist. Can someone point me in the right  
> direction?? 
>  
> Cheers, Duane. 
 
I had this problem on my SPARC when building SMGL on it, bootstrapped from 
Debian. 
 
Here is /a/ fix (thanks to Arwed) (not the proper one, I believe you missed 
somethingi n your upgrade, perhaps try 'cast -r -c init.d' again and say 'y' 
to everything, and also try devfsd, after using this fix to get cast working 
again): 
 
# ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd 
# ln -s /dev/fd/0 /dev/stdin 
# ln -s /dev/fd/1 /dev/stdout 
# ln -s /dev/fd/2 /dev/stderr 
 
-sandalle 
 
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