From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 7 23:19:47 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9D39B61E1 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 23:19:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C502CCC0 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 23:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id t77NJSNL015802 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:19:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id t77NJSoZ015799; Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:19:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:19:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Roland Smith cc: kpneal@pobox.com, Anthony Campbell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permissions problem for sane In-Reply-To: <20150807203613.GA64806@slackbox.erewhon.home> Message-ID: References: <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk> <20150806140729.GA40869@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20150807164602.GA2406@neutralgood.org> <20150807203613.GA64806@slackbox.erewhon.home> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:19:28 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:19:47 -0000 On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 01:20:59PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> 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'. > > When I was writing my answer, I ran `service -e` to see if devfs was listed as a > service. And it *doesn't* show up on my machine (10-STABLE amd64): It does show in 'service -l', doesn't it? That's what my csh autocomplete uses: complete service 'c/-/(e l r v)/' \ 'p/1/`service -l`/' \ 'n/*/(start stop reload restart status rcvar onestart onestop)/'