devfs.rules and serial devices question

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:47, Niki Denev wrote:
> perm    ttyd0   0660
> own     ttyd0   upsd:upsd
>
> But it still does not work because ttyd0.init and ttyd0.lock
> are still owned by root.

So?

> I'll try adding them too to the devfs.rules file,
> but i'm wondering if this is the expected behaviour of devfs?

Yes.

> I think that maybe it will be better if one specify ttyd0 in the
> file, that rule also to apply for ttyd0.init and ttyd0.lock files.
> What do you think?

I don't see why your program needs to open .init and .lock files. Both of 
those are pretty much exclusively for administrator use.

NUT should definitely work without being able to open them.

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