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Date:      Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:49:47 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: devfs doesn't set access rights
Message-ID:  <20051213164947.GA17705@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <439EF8B5.4030702@gmx.de>
References:  <439EF8B5.4030702@gmx.de>

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:37:09PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> On my FreeBSD 6-stable (the last build is less then 24hours ago) my
> devfs doesn't apply permissions set in /etc/devfs.conf when I attach new
> devices. I have to call:
> /etc/rc.d/devfs restart
> manually for the settings to be applied. This is rather uncomfortable in
> some cases (especially with my PDA).
>=20
> I don't know weather this is the normal behaviour, anyway if it is,
> shouldn't devfs be restarted automatically as soon as external devices
> (usb, firewire, ir) are attached?

This is normal.  devfs.conf is for boot only, you need devfs.rules for
runtime.  Unfortunatly, the documentation of this fact and the
docuementation of devfs.rules sucks.

-- Brooks

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