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Subject: Re: what is devfs? 
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > >     I think devfs is really cool.  I don't think it needs to have
> > >     fancy persistence in order to be useful.
> > 
> > Likewise.  I find myself never needing to change device permissions.
> 
> I often change perms on the bpf device so that members of the wheel
> group can read it.

do you do this in /etc/rc.local?
any reason you couldn't still do this?

> 
> 



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