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Re: MAKEDEV_plp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jun 3 12:38:21 1999
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 1999 20:47:41 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:38:12 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> When I first updated my sgi to 8.3 it syslogged a bunch of weird stuff
> the first time it booted. I can't find MAKEDEV_plp on the machien
> now, so I'm really not sure what happened.
This comes from the "MAKEDEV plp" command invoked in the chkdev init.d
script, whose output is piped into "logger -t MAKEDEV_plp"; /dev/MAKEDEV
is a make script.
The purpose of this is to convert the parallel port devices in /dev into
symlinks to the new hardware graph pseudo-file system (/hw).
Bob
