From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 16:07:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0330E106564A for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE1E8FC0C for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id 6G7A1i001516WCc01G7BRz; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:07:11 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=LMnkseq9 c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=s1O25tkdAAAA:8 a=-Z4rYefVZUcamrRnepoA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=OyOq_G8mXAEA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RYK1V-0000fZ-QG; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:07:09 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:07:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <201112051708.16072.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20111207095651.3688de01@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <20111207095651.3688de01@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201112071607.09728.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: "Zane C. B-H." Subject: Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:07:14 -0000 On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Zane C. B-H. wrote: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:39:30 -0700 (MST) > > Warren Block wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Zane C. B-H. wrote: > > > Still you will want to investigate what I've mentioned. It will > > > drastically simplify permission stuff as well as make automatic. > > > The devfs stuff is just not boottime only, but will be applied to > > > any new device added etc post boot. > > > > Are you sure of that? Seems like devfs permissions are only > > applied when devfs(8) apply/applyset commands are run, directly or > > through /etc/rc.d/devfs. > > Yeah, I am sure of that. It is what I have setup here. > > /etc/devfs.conf - This one only affects boot time stuff. > > /dec/devfs.rules - This one contains the rules will be applied during > and post boot. It will also require you to specify which to use in > "/etc/rc.conf" as this file can contain multiple rule sets. But can I use that to dynamically set up my link to the new device when the memory stick is inserted? -- Mike Clarke