devfs error on RELENG_5_2

Hello, I'm running a RELENG_5_2 box and I'm trying to use the devfs to change the file permissions on /dev/ttyd1. After perusing through the man page, I tried to change the permissions by doing this # ls -ol /dev/ttyd1 crw--- 1 root wheel - 28, 1 Jan 15 20:47 /dev/ttyd1 # devfs rule

support for .tgz packages on 5.x

Hello, It seems on 5.x that the support for .tgz packages is limited. You can do a pkg_add for a local .tgz file but pkg_add -r or pkg_add with a URL (i.e. ftp://) path specifiedwould not work because it automatically assumes the packages are of the .tbz variety and tries to uncompress it as a

console redirection to serial in Freebsd 5.1

So I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.1 from a CD (ISO). Now I'm trying to turn on console redirection in my image, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I read the article on turning on console redirection at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setu