devfs doesn't set access rights

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:37:09PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> On my FreeBSD 6-stable (the last build is less then 24hours ago) my
> devfs doesn't apply permissions set in /etc/devfs.conf when I attach new
> devices. I have to call:
> /etc/rc.d/devfs restart
> manually for the settings to be applied. This is rather uncomfortable in
> some cases (especially with my PDA).
> 
> I don't know weather this is the normal behaviour, anyway if it is,
> shouldn't devfs be restarted automatically as soon as external devices
> (usb, firewire, ir) are attached?

This is normal.  devfs.conf is for boot only, you need devfs.rules for
runtime.  Unfortunatly, the documentation of this fact and the
docuementation of devfs.rules sucks.

-- Brooks

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