modifying permissions in /dev

[lysergius2001]

Ah!  That helps.  Still cannot mount floppy except as root?

On Feb 7, 2008 12:10 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:

> lysergius2001 wrote this message on Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 20:48 +0000:
> > Thanks for this.
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/devfs start results in
> > eval: 1: syntax error: unterminated quoted string
> >
> > My devfs.rules looks like this
> >
> > [hostname_ruleset=10]
> >
> > add path 'da*s* mode 0666 group wheel
>                 ^
> seem to be missing a quote where...
>
> > should I add the fd0/cd0?
> >
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2008 6:11 PM, Bruce M. Simpson <bms at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > lysergius2001 wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Recently installed AMD64 6.3-stable and I am having a problem with
> > > > devfs.conf and /dev.  I understand the entries in devfs.conf should
> > > modify
> > > > the permissions on devices in /dev.  For some reason or other this
> is
> > > not
> > > > happening.  Can anyone shed some light on this?  What am I doing
> wrong?
> > >
> > > Try using devfs.rules -- devfs.conf entries will not be applied after
> > > boot, unless you force them to be reapplied by running /etc/rc.d/devfs
> > > start from a superuser shell.
>
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