Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 available

On Monday 27 September 2004 06:29 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:18:50 +0200
> > From: Radek Kozlowski <[email protected]>
> > Sender: [email protected]
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:41:08PM +0200, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> > > Yes I know, but when I do a "devfs rule add path uscanner0 mode 660"
> > > it says devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RADD: Input/output error. Even if
> > > the device does not exist, yet.
> >
> > Put something like this in your devfs.rules:
> >
> > [system=10]
> > add path uscanner0 mode 660
> >
> > and add the following line to rc.conf:
> >
> > devfs_system_ruleset="system"
>
> Thanks for the tip. But where is this documented? I can't find a
> reference to devfs.rules or to the devfs_system_ruleset variable. And,
> do you know if devfs.rules can create links such as are created by
> devfs.conf? I want to have /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd symlinked to my DVD
> drive when I attach it.
>
This isn't "documented" anywhere, but I think should be put on the TODO list 
for 5.3 or we're going to get a lot more of these emails which are only 
caused by not having a couple of manpages on the topic.

-- 
Anish Mistry

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