syslogd running on cramfs root

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello T Michael and all!

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 182, T Michael Turney wrote:
> We want to start using syslogd, which seems to want to
> use /dev/log as the socket to communicate with.
> /dev is on cramfs, so it is read-only.
[--SNIP--]
> We are wondering how other folks with a cramfs root filesystem
> have solved this problem.

A tmpfs mounted on /dev, with udev (or mdev as we are speaking of busybox) which
creates the devices at boot time and on-the-fly.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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