>> Final chown user.group -> chown user:group changes.

> Um... one reason there was a "." in there was that the MAKEDEV
> script may not always run under NetBSD, but sometimes also under
> some other machine setting up an environment for a netboot. at least
> for ultrix and sunos, I'm not sure if the can cope with your change.

Of course, on Solaris 2.6:

   small-gods# touch foo
   small-gods# chown root.sys foo
   chown: unknown user id root.sys
   small-gods# chown root:sys foo
   small-gods# 

Perhaps the script should use separate invocations of chown and chgrp
if portability is the goal.