No MAKEDEV in /dev

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 1 20:47:02 PST 2005


Timothy Luoma wrote:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp- 
> troubleshoot.html tells me to use this command from /dev/:
> 
>     sh MAKEDEV cuaa0 cuaa1 cuaa2 cuaa3
> 
> but there is no MAKEDEV in /dev/
> 

Usually there are two entries for this in the documentation,
one for 4.X and another for 5.X systems.

On 5.3, see 'man MAKEDEV' and 'man devfs', and find out
that MAKEDEV is deprecated by devfs.

Rob.


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