Permissions problem for sane

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Aug 7 23:19:47 UTC 2015


On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 01:20:59PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:07:29PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:43:35AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>>>>> My first posting to this list. I've been using 10.1 for a couple of
>>>>> months on my Thinkpad T60 without problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trying to get my Epson 1650 scanner to work, I found it was only
>>>>> detected as root. It's at /dev/usb:/dev/ugen0.2
>>>>>
>>>>> After googling, I found instructions on Freebsd manual for 8.7, which
>>>>> involved creating a usb group and making/modifying /etc/devfs.rules.
>>>>> This didn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I then added myself to the wheel and operator groups but again no
>>>>> result.
>>>
>>>> 3) Activated this ruleset in /etc/rc.conf:
>>>>
>>>>     devfs_system_ruleset="custom_rules"
>>>>
>>>> 4) reboot to activate the new ruleset and rules.
>>>
>>> I suspect that these two steps are being missed by many.
>>
>> devfs can be restarted with 'service devfs restart'.
>
> When I was writing my answer, I ran `service -e` to see if devfs was listed as a
> service. And it *doesn't* show up on my machine (10-STABLE amd64):

It does show in 'service -l', doesn't it?

That's what my csh autocomplete uses:

   complete service      'c/-/(e l r v)/' \
                         'p/1/`service -l`/' \
                         'n/*/(start stop reload restart status rcvar onestart onestop)/'


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