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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] init.d - can't find /dev/stdin
  • Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:53:09 -0500

A question for eric. I know this doesn't exactly follow the topic of this
thread, but do you have any tips for bootstrapping? I'm going to try to do it
with gentoo on an alpha box.
thanks
David Kowis

find ~your -name '*base* | xargs chown :us
Quoting 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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