/dev files keep no permissions

herbs herbert.raimund at gmx.net
Wed Sep 23 07:24:20 UTC 2009


Thanks Manolis,
works perfect now! 

FreeBSD has the safest speaker access in the universe it seems. Even
the speaker-beeping user should be member of a group to do so..

Cheers
herb langhans

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:44:12AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > herbs wrote:
> > > Hi Daemons,
> > > I wonder whats wrong there:
> > >
> > > I need to change the permissions from 
> > > /dev/speaker 600 to /dev/speaker 666
> > > --all works ok.
> > >
> > > Then I reboot the computer and the permissions of the file is back to 600.
> > >
> > > How to make it permanent? Is is normal that /dev files do what they
> > > want?
> > >
> > >   
> > 
> > Yes :)
> > The /dev filesystem is dynamic, it is recreated at every boot. For your
> > setting to persist, enter it in /etc/devfs.conf
> > 
> > The examples in there will help you out, although probably this is the
> > line you need:
> > 
> > perm speaker 0666
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