From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 02:02:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB36C16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:02:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F4E43D2F for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:02:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 031B0183BE6 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:51 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id E3DD31840DC for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:50 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75BE1840CA for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:50 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id 1857517F20; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:50 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D7017E9F; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:49 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CouK1-0002x2-00; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:49 +0800 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:02:49 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: Xian In-Reply-To: <200501121846.00477.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Message-ID: References: <20050108170052.28548.qmail@gawab.com> <20050112182508.7698.qmail@gawab.com> <200501121846.00477.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: David Adam X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (192/041231) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System mounting prob X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:02:56 -0000 On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Xian wrote: > I have a script that chmods the drives on boot but this is a bodge cos its > supposed to be done with devfs rules (man devfs for more info) but I am not > so good at these (if anyone can help me as well here please). Hi Xian et al, Here's how I went about getting devfs up and running. (I had a similar problem with permissions on my CD drive.) I think it shows a good way of going about solving FreeBSD problems. $ man devfs ... (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&sektion=5) Well, that's not very useful. Now, where would any sensible person keep devfs rules? $ man devfs.conf No manual entry for devfs.conf $ man devfs.rules No manual entry for devfs.rules Time to check the PR database - the FreeBSD bug reporting system. (OK, I cheated here because I already knew that a Problem Report existed with a fix.) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=63808 looks useful. And there's a suggested fix. We head to http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ and see the link to two manpages - unfortunately, they're written in a weird looking language. They're understandable, but only just. Scroll down the page to the Devfs section (about half-way down the page). Ah... I'll let you do the rest. Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au