From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 30 12: 6:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B7837B66D for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com (C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.12.58.155]) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA69431; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 21:06:18 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8UJ67k09252; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:06:07 -0700 From: Jeremy Lea To: Mike Meyer Cc: Alexander Langer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting device permissions for DEVFS Message-ID: <20000930120607.C349@shale.csir.co.za> References: <20000929180208.A821@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000930120037.A4899@cichlids.cichlids.com> <14806.11402.323948.403889@guru.mired.org> <20000930201738.A17165@cichlids.cichlids.com> <14806.13976.356085.876527@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14806.13976.356085.876527@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:53:12PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:53:12PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Well, I like your idea better than mine (though device_chmods="first > second etc" then chmod_first, chmod_second, chmod_etc would be better > names), but meant to ask - is there some reason that /etc/fbtab can't > be used for this? Possibly with some beefing up (/etc/defaults, for > instance)? > > Of course, it needs to handle symlinks. I'd rather fix the symlink for > /dev/scanner than reconfigure sane when I add a new device. Possibly > device_links, or more work on fbtab? Can mtree not be used for this? Seems like the quickest and cleanest solution to me... -Jeremy -- FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message