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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:20:59 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        kpneal@pobox.com
Cc:        Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:  Permissions problem for sane
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508071320260.57306@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150807164602.GA2406@neutralgood.org>
References:  <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk> <20150806140729.GA40869@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20150807164602.GA2406@neutralgood.org>

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On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:07:29PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:43:35AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>>> My first posting to this list. I've been using 10.1 for a couple of
>>> months on my Thinkpad T60 without problems.
>>>
>>> Trying to get my Epson 1650 scanner to work, I found it was only
>>> detected as root. It's at /dev/usb:/dev/ugen0.2
>>>
>>> After googling, I found instructions on Freebsd manual for 8.7, which
>>> involved creating a usb group and making/modifying /etc/devfs.rules.
>>> This didn't work.
>>>
>>> I then added myself to the wheel and operator groups but again no
>>> result.
>
>> 3) Activated this ruleset in /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>>     devfs_system_ruleset="custom_rules"
>>
>> 4) reboot to activate the new ruleset and rules.
>
> I suspect that these two steps are being missed by many.

devfs can be restarted with 'service devfs restart'.



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