From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 5:35:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D341F37B408 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA13630 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:31:31 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id FAA02109; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206251231.FAA02109@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: devfs question Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm writing a section for the handbook on multimedia and I have a question about devfs. I am not running CURRENT, so I do not know much about how to set devfs up. The basic problem is this: many dvd playing apps either use as default or use hardcoded (god forbid, but it happens) /dev/dvd as the dvd device. And, to avoid having to run them as root, write permissions must be granted. So, what you'd like to have is # chmod 664 /dev/acd0c # ln -sf /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd # ln -sf /dev/acd0c /dev/rdvd Under 5.X, I seem to recall seeing somewhere that there is some sort of conf file in which one can specify this setup so that these commands do not need to be re-run at boot every time. Can someone tell me what is the right bit of magic I should tel people to do? -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message