AW: Cannot log in as root directly, but su works

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 12 March 2007 18:14, Martetschlaeger Stefan wrote:
> > Question: where is it different from the case when /dev is writable?
> 
> See above. I need to have /dev writable because syslogd
> wants to create its log socket there. Besides from that
> it's quite handy to be able to create the devices dynamically.   

Yes, I do too. I just mounted ramfs there.
It's impractical to chase various programs which expect /dev
to be a real dir... BTW, /etc is less affected, I have /etc
symlinked and so far everything is ok.
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