From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 17 21:59:33 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E7FBBD14F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:59:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22d.google.com (mail-it0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2D4612FA for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id f6so3691065ith.0 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:59:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Bq4bcjVCvPLoC2rsxMy4lQ7Gv4aZSLnfnQoL3eCMiGc=; b=x/V7b/f213uruCsg0jpvqBRcXNpZhtYV3c+Lsdu9xrk5IzwkCDAxpBc43WU7t7AKoG 01sqZX+93El69Tua8PnCm9bFYvYuKnocbwsceD4H3MQRcmmGmZvcs2z5jf2gZJxZ6iDD SeoOyowr7jIHN1UIPmAinPXaH9HnBKN//edowuA/tl8mM0IBBW1ne5ziKZVtLy5K/Mep Jwv6fwuH8lde9R3m4v7H25P/uwCx/pkF8cgOFdoLjWsgWQX5baz38j16b+gbiyU0syff yuaE0+76yLEKfXpdmhvaATiKGlPguDiCtkuJxOqn8DbeoiegU8yu+KZivq/bFGH/3Up7 D2FQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Bq4bcjVCvPLoC2rsxMy4lQ7Gv4aZSLnfnQoL3eCMiGc=; b=HXLpE27/NGV3sjpqAmNquvkFILLUAwDKhOZZ6MHHwypYa5/MG91POaKziPQt8+baU/ lJEXdOXvJ0ksp1o7J2cT0ABsj6deCxrCJEbKPJQbbKW1FMsNenRQ2CKt8N3gppTwZK/F Jcr9cAz/XXL1FvmBamGjs/PUNRH8mKbWkBtYEr4wH7pbtUG6kJX0CBgW+yHbkf5O2tMR z9YEn7XYqnm+/EPPdMxjYtt0HimrZbOjzKaKWGz8zGz+9WQjAEnj4l2mdUV5aaiSSlNn +ij7Tft/eGJWtEOKcUtKXc8QI0g/T2VNnkU6z4/YPOE+q0gzaRaWEvKVNySp4OvkDduf PjJw== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouvb0pxogPyxW+ajZKD0iSgCrGkPxEF85he/Nt/91NSOhrAIvXUj80bB02nUQjvsjg== X-Received: by 10.36.206.129 with SMTP id v123mr31654680itg.11.1471471172150; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.3] (cpe-24-165-196-54.neo.res.rr.com. [24.165.196.54]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id v11sm5074932iod.43.2016.08.17.14.59.31 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57B4DE5E.2000004@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:59:58 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freebsd Questions Subject: How to enable rules in hosts /etc/devfs.rules file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:59:33 -0000 I put some rules in the hosts /etc/devfs.rules file. On reboot these new rules get enabled. I would like to enable new rules without rebooting the system. Read the devfs man page and issued some commands but got message saying unknown argument. Say I have a rule number 10 that I added to the /etc/devfs.rules file. How would I go about enabling it without a reboot? Thanks