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?
It is the normal behaviour, /etc/rc.d/devfs is a little script that
parse /etc/devfs.conf and according to it and what it find in /dev it
set permissions or create links, it's purely static.
One possibility is to call /etc/rc.d/devfs when a device is attached
in /etc/devd.conf (take a look at devd(8) and devd.conf(5))
For exemple, I have something like this in my /etc/devd.conf :
attach 100 {
device-name "umass[0-9]+" ;
action "/bin/sleep 3; /etc/rc.d/devfs restart" ;
};
"attach" : what kind of event
"100" : as usual, for ordering rules
"device-name ..." : the device concerned
"action ... " : what to do, here I use sleep, because action is called
when the attach event arrives, not when the device node is created.
There maybe a better way, but "it works"© ;)
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Burelle Marwan,
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