make chmod changes to /dev files (bpf devices)

Tim Aslat tim at spyderweb.com.au
Sun Sep 26 17:50:11 PDT 2004


In the immortal words of Eric Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net>...
> What do I have to do to make chmod changes to my bpf devices so that 
> they'll return that way once I reboot?

man devfs is what you need to check, and then if you are running a
recent 5.x branch, try typing 
/etc/rc.d/devfs restart
No reboot necessary

Cheers

Tim

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