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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:08:47 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to set device characteristics with devd
Message-ID:  <20051129060847.GA26275@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000801c5f4aa$b7d340a0$642a15ac@smiley>
References:  <20051129054922.48ACA5D0A@ptavv.es.net> <000801c5f4aa$b7d340a0$642a15ac@smiley>

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:04:05PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> From: Kevin Oberman
> >=20
> > I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have=20
> > not gotten
> > far.
> >=20
> > One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk:
> > attach 100 {
> >         device-name "acd0";
> >         action "/bin/chmod 666 /dev/$device-name";
> > }
> >=20
> > I have similar statements for my second hard drive (ad2s2).
> >=20
> > By using the -D option I see the device attach, but the chmod returns
> > an error indicating that /dev/acd0 does not exist. I get=20
> > similar results for other devices.
> >=20
> > Is there a delay between the attach event and the creation of the /dev
> > entry? Am I missing something here? Maybe I should use devfs for this.
>=20
> The normal tools (chmod, chown, etc.) don't work on devfs.  You need to
> create devfs rules to change permissions, ownership, etc. on device nodes.

Nope.  It's a race.  I wouldn't count on devd getting there either
early enough or late enough.

[10:07pm] brooks@pagefault (~): uname -a
FreeBSD pagefault 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 20 20:37:29 P=
ST 2005 ...
[10:07pm] brooks@pagefault (~): ls -l /dev/cuad0
crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer    0,  74 Nov 28 10:15 /dev/cuad0
[10:07pm] brooks@pagefault (~): sudo chmod 666 /dev/cuad0
Password:
[10:07pm] brooks@pagefault (~): ls -l /dev/cuad0
crw-rw-rw-  1 uucp  dialer    0,  74 Nov 28 10:15 /dev/cuad0
[10:07pm] brooks@pagefault (~):

> See devfs.rules(5) and devfs.conf(5).

Yes.

-- Brooks

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