On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:49:47AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:37:09PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > On my FreeBSD 6-stable (the last build is less then 24hours ago) my > > devfs doesn't apply permissions set in /etc/devfs.conf when I attach new > > devices. I have to call: > > /etc/rc.d/devfs restart > > manually for the settings to be applied. This is rather uncomfortable in > > some cases (especially with my PDA). > > > > I don't know weather this is the normal behaviour, anyway if it is, > > shouldn't devfs be restarted automatically as soon as external devices > > (usb, firewire, ir) are attached? > > This is normal. devfs.conf is for boot only, you need devfs.rules for > runtime. Unfortunatly, the documentation of this fact and the > docuementation of devfs.rules sucks.
Hmm, it's quite explicitly mentioned in the manual pages for devfs.conf and devfs.rules. Feel free to suggest improvements... Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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