Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:19:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: kpneal@pobox.com, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permissions problem for sane Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508071717480.15292@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20150807203613.GA64806@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk> <20150806140729.GA40869@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20150807164602.GA2406@neutralgood.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508071320260.57306@wonkity.com> <20150807203613.GA64806@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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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)/'
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