kern/63954: devfs loses permissions

[Matteo Riondato]

The following reply was made to PR kern/63954; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matteo Riondato <matteo at freebsd.org>
To: Mike Makonnen <mtm at identd.net>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, edwin at mavetju.org, mmolteni at cisco.com,
	freebsd-rc at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/63954: devfs loses permissions
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:45:50 +0200

 On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:13:19PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
 > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:27:44PM +0200, Matteo Riondato wrote:
 > > Patch for this against /etc/rc.d/devfs follows and can be found at
 > > http://www.riondabsd.net/diff/devfs.diff. Please note that this patch
 > > includes fix for PR bin/65693 (wildcarded device names in devfs.conf
 > > ). I hope someone will pick this up and commit the patch.
 > > 
 > 
 > ummm... you have the right idea, except it has already been implemented for
 > a while: devfs.rules(5). The devfs.conf(5) file is
 > still with us because it does one thing devfs.rules(5) can't do, which is
 > make symlinks (which it can't because devfs(8) can't :-))
 > 
 > So, what you should do is edit /etc/devfs.rules with:
 > [myworkstation=500]
 > add path bpf* mode 0640
 > 
 > Then edit /etc/rc.conf and add:
 > devfs_system_ruleset=myworkstation
 
 Then having any other kind of rule in devfs.conf should is kind of
 useless, at least for devices that can "disappear", since rules
 referring to them will not be added do the devfs ruleset, and this
 implies that one have to rerun /etc/rc.d/devfs after reinserting the
 pcmcia nic or after launching tcpdump or whatever.  
 Anyway, I see that this is documented on devfs.conf(5), so you can
 close this PR (and bin/65693 too).
 -- 
 Matteo Riondato
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