Permissions problem for sane

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 05:19:28PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it does. I think Kevin is right, and it's the lack of an rcvar in the
devfs script that causes this behaviour.

Roland
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