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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:58:15 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        junk <junk@volny.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Documentation Correction
Message-ID:  <20081007175815.GA1032@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <48EA6DB9.6010900@volny.cz>
References:  <48E8F467.3050907@volny.cz> <20081006065101.GA1319@gothic.blackend.org> <48EA6DB9.6010900@volny.cz>

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On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:57:45PM +0200, junk wrote:
> Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:07:51PM +0200, junk wrote:
> >   
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/usb-disks.html
> >>
> >> 18.5.2 Testing the Configuration
> >> ...
> >> This is accomplished by adding these lines to /etc/devfs.rules:
> >>
> >> [localrules=1]
> >> add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator
> >>
> >> It should probably be [localrules=10]. I followed handbook and it didn't 
> >> work until I changed it to [localrules=10] (I found it elsewhere).
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know it will not help things, but [localrules=1] works here under
> > 7.1-PRERELEASE
> >
> >   
> Hello,
> 
> yes, it does not help things. Important is, if [localrules=10] works for 
> both you and me (and for other releases of FreeBSD). I'm FreeBSD newbie 
> and it took me a lot of time to realize that handbook is probably not 
> quite correct (maybe some typo?).
> 
> By the way: I have FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
> 
> So my question is: is it a mistake or not? If it is, correct it.
>

In fact, in the doc, [localrules=5] should be better cause
/etc/defaults/devfs.rules already defines 4 rulesets.  I just changed
the Handbook on this point.  However, [localrules=1] should work.

-- 
Marc



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