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On 2006-01-07 20:47 +0100, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:37:49 +0100
> Stefan Eßer <se@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > As of now, devfs.conf is used to specify the initial state of the
> > device nodes created in /dev. When there was a /dev on the root
> > file system, ownership and permissions were persistent, and you
> > could have alias names for devices by creating symbolic links in
> > /dev.
> 
> There's another method of having some kind of persistent
> permissions... /etc/devfs.rules. Have a look at devfs(8). This is
> different from /etc/rc.d/devfs, since rc.d/devfs does everything by
> hand, whereas devfs(8) puts some rules into the kernel.

Definitely the method to use here!
Thanks for pointing that out ...

Regards, STefan