Debian bug report logs - #903 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#903: /dev miscellaney Reply-To: Bill Mitchell , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: Bill Mitchell Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 03:33:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 24 May 1995 03:33:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 052403244719583; Wed, 24 May 1995 03:24:47 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sE72q-00062FC; Tue, 23 May 95 20:23 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA17945 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 23 May 1995 20:22:09 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.6) with ESMTP id WAA15369 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 22:23:32 -0500 Received: from mdd.comm.mot.com (mdisea.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.64.201]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.6) with SMTP id WAA12267 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 22:23:31 -0500 Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com by mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12944; Tue, 23 May 95 20:23:30 PDT Received: by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02718; Tue, 23 May 95 20:23:28 PDT Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 20:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Mitchell X-Sender: mitchell@bb29c To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII PACKAGE: base VERSION: 0.93R5 I was browsing around today and came across the vcs(4) man page. That told me that /dev/vcs{0-8} and /dev/vcsa{0-8) are missing. Also, I note that they're not supported by the /dev/MAKEDEV script. Finally, and this is perhaps a don't care item, I note that MAKEDEV -n {various arguments} complains about not finding vcs, st, sg, ide0, sd, and sr. Some of these may be alternate (more standard?) names for /dev files which we do provide. mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bill Mitchell Subject: Bug#903: Acknowledgement (was: /dev miscellaney) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#903: dev miscellaney Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:48:04 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: base X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 25 May 1995 11:48:04 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 05251146409910; Thu, 25 May 1995 11:46:40 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sEax9-0007lxC; Thu, 25 May 95 04:19 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA13146 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 25 May 1995 04:18:20 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sEaoZ-000BzuC; Thu, 25 May 95 12:10 BST Received: by chiark id m0sER6N-0000XRZ (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.31); Thu, 25 May 95 01:48 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 25 May 95 01:48 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#903: /dev miscellaney"): > Finally, and this is perhaps a don't care item, I note that > MAKEDEV -n {various arguments} complains about not finding > vcs, st, sg, ide0, sd, and sr. Some of these may be alternate > (more standard?) names for /dev files which we do provide. vcs, st, sg and sd should definitely supported. They are the virtual console screendup devices, SCSI tape drives, SCSI generic devices and SCSI disks respectively. I don't know about ide0. sr is an alternative name for scd, the SCSI CD-ROM devices. The MAKEDEV I have (0.93R5) does appear to work with some of these. However, it has a tendency to print out (if not run as root) messages like: mknod: st0-: Operation not permitted which make me rather suspicious. If I invoke it as root is seems to DTRT. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#903: Info received (was Bug#903: /dev miscellaney) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From debian.org!imurdock Wed Oct 11 15:47:47 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t39wB-000BA4C; Wed, 11 Oct 95 15:47 PDT Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11642 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:47:23 -0700 Received: by imagine.imaginit.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:51 EST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:51 EST From: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com reassign 903 (base) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov