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Subject: devfs(8) errors
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This is on a 5.1-RELEASE system.

devfs(8) has this as an example, but I get the following error:

# devfs rule add path speaker mode 666
devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RADD: Input/output error
# 


What's happening here?  Do I need to compile something special into the kernel
for this to work?