[15634] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.0L -> 8.1.13 update misses NETDEV
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 2 19:30:47 1997
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>,
bugs@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:29:47 GMT."
<199711030029.AAA24772@deliverator.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 19:30:43 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> So, I checked 6 SGIs I have remote access to, and discovered that
> they all had this problem too.
Public SGIs also clobber their NETDEV variable at boot time, but on
the other hand, I don't know if they ever set it. Certainly, we've
never had a problem with the value being NODEV.
