Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> writes:
> Is there any reason why this isn't dealt with through MAKEDEV?

Because editing 18 MAKEDEVs is a pain until everything stabilizes
here, among other reasons. In any case, the install sets for 1.4 will
include the symlink.

> I thought the whole idea about moving /dev/log to /var/run was to
> make it possible for /dev being on a read-only file system.

Yup. 

Perry