Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc/etc.i386
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti@netbsd.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/12/2002 00:59:20
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:38:02PM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
  | On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | 
  | >   | Use "mkdir -p" instead of "mkdir" to create /dev/altq
  | >
  | > Is "-p" truly necessary?
  | >
  | > The entry being created is "altq", not "/dev/altq", so -p is
  | > superfluous, which is why I removed it in an earlier commit.
  | 
  | Without this fix:
  | 
  |   ROOT dhcp118:/dev> sh MAKEDEV all
  |   mkdir: altq: File exists

I've fixed that; Lennart pointed this out to me a while ago.