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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> 
> another update on the udev front, things are progressing nicely :)
> Thanks to Hamish and Casey for providing me with a MAKEDEV script.
> 
> Changes since last time:
> 
> - the init.d spell will check the static /dev for console and null
>   devices, if they don't exist it offers to create a static dev tree,
>   defaulting to yes (this is only checked if the user chooses udev or
>   static for device management)
> - the udev spell now installs a /etc/udev/udev.missing file that gets
>   processed by the devices init script to create the devices udev
>   doesn't know about, the file is commented and currently contains only
>   the ppp device, if anyone finds more missing devices they can be added
>   easily.
> 
> Still missing is securetty and fstab editing, securetty is easy, fstab
> is hard. For fstab it'll need to map devfs names like
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -> /dev/hda and vice versa, same
> for scsi. If anyone wants to take a shot at it i'll be happy to include
> it in the init.d spell.

# cast -r -c init.d simpleinit-msb udev

Worked great (after I remembered to modify /etc/fstab ;))! 

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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