From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 17:22:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CE216A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE6D43D54 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:22:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (trini0.org[65.34.205.195]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004113017223201500c48lre>; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:22:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.16] (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.16]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7355360F4; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:22:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41ACAC63.9050802@trini0.org> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:22:43 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041114) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xinopher@web.de References: <350578163@web.de> In-Reply-To: <350578163@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:22:33 -0000 xinopher@web.de wrote: >Hi > >I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. > >Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: > >The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example >questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. > >5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 >crw------- 1 root operator 232, 0 Nov 30 14:35 /dev/ch0 > >While using 4.x I just did chmod g+rw /dev/ch0 during installation >of amanda and everything was fine, now rebooting a 5.3 machine >everything is not fine as the additional rights are gone... > >Is there a way to grant additional rights surviving reboots? >I can write a little script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but I do not think >that would be very cute :-( > On 5.3, look at the file /etc/devfs.conf