/dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

[Gerard Samuel]

xinopher at web.de wrote:

>Hi
>
>I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3.
>
>Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem:
>
>The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example
>questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape.
>
>5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0
>crw-------  1 root  operator  232,   0 Nov 30 14:35 /dev/ch0
>
>While using 4.x I just did chmod g+rw /dev/ch0 during installation
>of amanda and everything was fine, now rebooting a 5.3 machine
>everything is not fine as the additional rights are gone...
>
>Is there a way to grant additional rights surviving reboots?
>I can write a little script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but I do not think
>that would be very cute :-(
>

On 5.3, look at the file /etc/devfs.conf