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Date:      Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:53:46 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
Cc:        Freebsd Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to enable rules in hosts /etc/devfs.rules file
Message-ID:  <20160818115346.7336c8cc@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <57B4DE5E.2000004@gmail.com>
References:  <57B4DE5E.2000004@gmail.com>

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On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:59:58 -0400 Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

devfs.rules is parsed by rc(8) scripts during boot and turned into a series
of devfs(8) commands.  You can rerun this with 'service devfs restart'.



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