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. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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