Re: MAKEDEV from ansible problem

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:22:16AM -0400, vom513 wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have been playing with ansible to set up some of my NB machines they way I like in an automated fashion.  As of right now it?s working very well.  I ran this on 3 machiens yesterday, and ansible reported no failures. 
> 
> The one thing that reported success but didn?t actually happen was a MAKEDEV for sd5.  I have more drives on this machine than NetBSD created device nodes for by default.  My playbook section:
> 
> - name: Setup RAID on ss20 - make devices for sd5
>     become: yes
>     shell: |
>         /dev/MAKEDEV sd5
>     when: ansible_facts['hostname'] == ?ss20?
> 
> It seems like something wasn?t happy about the way this ran.  It ran as root (become: yes).  And as I said ansible said it ran okay.  But sd5 was not actually created.
> 
> Is there a nuance to the MAKEDEV script that I need to take into account to make this successful ?

maybe
cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV sd5 

I think MAKEDEV create nodes in the current directory

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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