Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com> writes:

> sysmon has the same major as lm.

Yes, but there were no major number in MAKEDEV:

$ sh -x /usr/src/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV sysmon 
+ dialin=0
+ dialout=524288
+ callunit=262144
+ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
+ umask 77
+ [ -d fd ]
+ nofdesc=true
+ rm -f sysmon
+ mknod sysmon c
Usage: mknod [-F format] name [b | c] major minor
       mknod [-F format] name [b | c] major unit subunit
       mknod name [b | c] number
       mknod name p
+ chown root.wheel sysmon
chown: sysmon: No such file or directory
+ chmod 644 sysmon
chmod: sysmon: No such file or directory

/Johan