On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:04:05PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> From: Kevin Oberman
> >
> > I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have
> > not gotten
> > far.
> >
> > One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk:
> > attach 100 {
> > device-name "acd0";
> > action "/bin/chmod 666 /dev/$device-name";
> > }
> >
> > I have similar statements for my second hard drive (ad2s2).
> >
> > By using the -D option I see the device attach, but the chmod returns
> > an error indicating that /dev/acd0 does not exist. I get
> > similar results for other devices.
> >
> > Is there a delay between the attach event and the creation of the /dev
> > entry? Am I missing something here? Maybe I should use devfs for this.
>
> The normal tools (chmod, chown, etc.) don't work on devfs. You need to
> create devfs rules to change permissions, ownership, etc. on device nodes.Nope. It's a race. I wouldn't count on devd getting there either early enough or late enough. [10:07pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~): uname -a FreeBSD pagefault 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 20 20:37:29 PST 2005 ... [10:07pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~): ls -l /dev/cuad0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 0, 74 Nov 28 10:15 /dev/cuad0 [10:07pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~): sudo chmod 666 /dev/cuad0 Password: [10:07pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~): ls -l /dev/cuad0 crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp dialer 0, 74 Nov 28 10:15 /dev/cuad0 [10:07pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~): > See devfs.rules(5) and devfs.conf(5). Yes. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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