From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 09:28:58 2005 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 A35AA16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:28:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A70243D45 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:28:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.24])2004))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:28:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE500A3RROAUP60@pd3mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:28:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net (S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.146.24]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IE500D0ARO9AK@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:28:58 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:29:23 -0800 From: David Armour In-reply-to: <20050330053610.EC96916A522@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200503300129.24273.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Organization: dfarmour.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20050330053610.EC96916A522@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 cc: Christopher Nehren Subject: Re: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE (Christopher Nehren) 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: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:28:58 -0000 hello, i hope i'm replying correctly. do i reply to: all, author, or mailing list? i'm grateful for replies i've received so far, and impressed that it's come in faster than i'm able to actually take advantage of, what with work going on. > [partially snipped for clarity] > >> > #permissions: No such file or directory > >> > are: No such file or directory > >> > set: No such file or directory > >> > properly: No such file or directory > >> > at: No such file or directory > >> > boot: No such file or directory > > "permissions are set properly at boot" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ the exact text i used, following your earlier recommendation to look for start up scripts and a subsequent suggestion from Andrew Heyn, was: grep -Ri "permissions are set properly at boot" /etc/ the result i received at that point, /etc/devfs.conf:perm xpt0 0666 #permissions are set properly at boot seems to support your original suspicion.