On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Intermittently during testing, I've found that the tail > /var/log/messages running on tty3 sometimes reports "no such file or > directory." I assume this is because the messages file simply doesn't > exist yet. thats not a tail /var/log/messages, syslog on b-f is configured to log directly to /dev/tty3. > Certainly one fix for this would be to touch messages in=20 > scripts/rootdisk/prototype/var/log, thus creating an empty file. Perhaps > another way is to otherwise create the file at boot time, perhaps in > inittab? no that won't change anything, what your seeing is no such file or directory messages being logged. > On another topic: currently, the default ext2 partition formatting > provides backward support for 2.0 kernels. Would anyone object if I > change the default to 2.2 (and later) kernels? I noticed that the arm > message (in utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c) is a bit different, > something about netwinder firmware. I won't change that entry without > explicit instructions. im all for it, except on archs that have firmware which reads old style ext2, like the netwinder. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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