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Cc: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Palm Tx + jpilot
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Armin Arh <armin@pubbox.net> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:16:46AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote:
>> > In /etc/devfs.conf:
>> > perm   cuaU0  0666
>> >
>> > but then:
>> > ## l /dev/cuaU0
>> > crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer  -   0, 113 Dec 15 05:00 /dev/cuaU0
>> >
>> > The /dev/devfs.conf permissions only apply when i run
>> > "/etc/rc.d/devfs restart" This is a nogo because i have only 1
>> > second between pressing sync on the Handheld and clicking sync on
>> > jpilot.
>> man devfs.rules
>
> Thx.
> Now devfs.rules(5) redirects me to devfs.conf(5)
> which clearly states i should set
>
> perm   cuaU0  0666
>
> and i did so as described in my initial post.
> Nevertheless the permissions became wrong.
> Maybe it works after the next reboot, which is hard to
> believe... we'll see.

You need devfs.rules, *not* devfs.conf.
Try the manual page for the former again.