On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:23:26PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > There maybe a better way, but "it works"© ;) > You should be using /etc/devfs.rules > > Search the mailing list for examples and setup.
Yes, I know, some month ago I wrote a little documentation (in french [1]) for using USB keys on a FreeBSD worstation. Someone point me out to devfs.rules, but at that time I couldn't find any clear documentation, nor any clear way of doing some more complex things. My goal was to simulate Linux+Gnome behaviour when USB key are plugged, that is, transparently mount it with the user id so that Gnome desktop shows it with an appropriate icon[2]. Using devfs.conf was a simple way of fixing permissions but in the context not the only one. I used devd.conf, since I want some other task to do, mainly a script that find if a user is logged with X, and mount the right device with its id, this involve also testing if the device use da0 or da0s1 and also manage the possibility of plugin more than one umass devices at the same time. In that context using devfs.conf or devfs.rules doesn't realy change (as a user point of view, in particular when you don't realy know the difference.) I know now that I was wrong, but as the current discussion shows, there is (was ? ;) a lack of good documentation on the subject. [1] : http://www.lri.fr/~burelle/BSD/USBKey-FreeBSD.html [2] : My starting was point here : http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ -- Marwan Burelle, http://www.lri.fr/~burelle ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) http://www.cduce.org
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