From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 5 10:58: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7794D37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:58:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from phalanx.trit.org (phalanx.trit.org [63.198.170.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0639243E77 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@trit.org) Received: from harpoon.trit.org (harpoon.trit.org [192.168.4.193]) by phalanx.trit.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709BF1A1DF; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from harpoon.trit.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harpoon.trit.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA5IvxCA000756; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:57:59 GMT (envelope-from dima@trit.org) Received: (from dima@localhost) by harpoon.trit.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA5IvvfV000755; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:57:57 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: harpoon.trit.org: dima set sender to dima@trit.org using -f Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:57:57 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman To: Andrew Lankford Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the status of devfs(8)? Message-ID: <20021105185757.GB641@trit.org> References: <20021105044708.LIEA1469.out010.verizon.net@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021105044708.LIEA1469.out010.verizon.net@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Lankford wrote: > > When I try commands like: > > #devfs rule add path speaker mode 666 Did you set a ruleset before this? devfs ruleset 10 > devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RADD: Input/output error This is telling you that you're trying to modify ruleset 0. From the man page: Ruleset number 0 is the default ruleset for all new mount-points. It is always empty, cannot be modified or deleted, and does not show up in the output of showsets. > but /dev/devctl is in my /dev (devfs) partition. Actually, /dev/devctl is related to devd(8), not devfs(8). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message