Pretty generic, with just dvd uncommented. I'm pretty new to this devfs 
concept, comming from Redhat.

- dennis





# Sample /etc/devfsd.conf configuration file.
# Richard Gooch  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         3-JUL-2000
#
# The Gentoo Linux Team - http://www.gentoo.org/
#     - Many fixes, etc
#
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/devfsd.conf,v 1.16 
2003/05/18 21:51:34 azarah Exp $
                                                                                
# Enable full compatibility mode for old device names. You may comment 
these
# out if you don't use the old device names. Make sure you know what 
you're
# doing!
REGISTER        .*           MKOLDCOMPAT
UNREGISTER      .*           RMOLDCOMPAT
                                                                                
# You may comment out the above and uncomment the following if you've
# configured your system to use the original "new" devfs names or the 
really
# new names
#REGISTER       vc/.*        MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER     vc/.*        RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER       pty/.*       MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER     pty/.*       RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER       misc         MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER     misc         RMOLDCOMPAT
 
# You may comment these out if you don't use the original "new" names
REGISTER        .*           MKNEWCOMPAT
UNREGISTER      .*           RMNEWCOMPAT
 
# Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use
# autoloading
LOOKUP          .*           MODLOAD
 
# Uncomment the following if you want to set the group to "tty" for the
# pseudo-tty devices. This is necessary so that mesg(1) can later be used 
to
# enable/disable talk requests and wall(1) messages.
REGISTER        ^pty/s.*     PERMISSIONS -1.tty  0600
REGISTER        ^pts/.*      PERMISSIONS -1.tty  0600
 
# Uncomment this if you want permissions to be saved and restored
# NB: Do NOT change the following!
# Do not do this for pseudo-terminal devices
REGISTER        ^pt[sy]/.*   IGNORE
CHANGE          ^pt[sy]/.*   IGNORE
CREATE          ^pt[sy]/.*   IGNORE
DELETE          ^pt[sy]      IGNORE
REGISTER        ^log         IGNORE
CHANGE          ^log         IGNORE
CREATE          ^log         IGNORE
DELETE          ^log         IGNORE
REGISTER        .*           COPY    /lib/dev-state/$devname $devpath
CHANGE          .*           COPY    $devpath /lib/dev-state/$devname
CREATE          .*           COPY    $devpath /lib/dev-state/$devname
DELETE          .*           CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink 
/lib/dev-state/$devname
RESTORE         /lib/dev-state
 
# You can force default like this :
# PERMISSIONS owner_and_group access_mode
 
# Video4Linux devices
REGISTER       v4l/.*       PERMISSIONS root.video 660
 
# ALSA/OSS stuff
# Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on
# the audio devices
LOOKUP          snd          MODLOAD ACTION snd
LOOKUP          dsp          MODLOAD
LOOKUP          mixer        MODLOAD
LOOKUP          midi         MODLOAD
REGISTER        sound/.*     PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTER        snd/.*       PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
# Uncomment this to let PAM manage devfs
#REGISTER        .*           CFUNCTION 
/lib/security/pam_console_apply_devfsd.so pam_console_apply_single 
$devpath
 
# Autoload the sg module if generic scsi driver compiled as module.
#LOOKUP          ^sg$      MODLOAD ACTION sg
 
# Give the cdrw group write permissions to /dev/sg0
# This is done to have non root user use the burner (scan the scsi bus)
#REGISTER        ^scsi/host.*/bus.*/target.*/lun.*/generic    PERMISSIONS 
root.cdrw 660
 
# General note for the following auto creation of symlinks:
#
#    If you change the device that the symlink points to,
#    you should also remove the symlink before restarting
#    devfsd
 
# Create /dev/cdrom for the first cdrom drive
LOOKUP          ^cdrom$          CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink cdroms/cdrom0 
cdrom
REGISTER        ^cdroms/cdrom0$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname 
cdrom
UNREGISTER      ^cdroms/cdrom0$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom
 
# Create /dev/dvd for the second cdrom drive
# (change 'cdroms/cdrom1' to suite your setup)
# NOTE: We add the fully qualified path here, else some apps
#       have problems to resolve the true device (drip comes to mind)
LOOKUP          ^dvd$            CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink 
${mntpnt}/cdroms/cdrom0 dvd
REGISTER        ^cdroms/cdrom0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink ${devpath} dvd
UNREGISTER      ^cdroms/cdrom0$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink dvd
 
# Create /dev/cdrw for the first cdrom on the scsi bus
# (change 'sr0' to suite your setup)
#LOOKUP          ^cdrw$          CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink sr0 cdrw
#REGISTER        ^sr0$           CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrw
#UNREGISTER      ^sr0$           CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrw
 
# Create /dev/mouse
LOOKUP          ^mouse$          CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink misc/psaux 
mouse
REGISTER        ^misc/psaux$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname mouse
UNREGISTER      ^misc/psaux$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mouse
 
# Manage USB mouse
REGISTER        ^input/mouse0$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname 
usbmouse
UNREGISTER      ^input/mouse0$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink usbmouse
REGISTER        ^input/mice$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname 
usbmouse
UNREGISTER      ^input/mice$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink usbmouse
 
# Support additional config installed by packages ...
INCLUDE /etc/devfs.d
 
# devfsd.conf ends here





On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

> What does /etc/devfsd.conf have in  it for these devices?
> 
> On Saturday 22 November 2003 18:43, you wrote:
> > Every time I boot up I have a directory /dev/dvd and a directory
> > /dev/lirc/lirc0 and /dev/lirc/0. These are directories not char devices.
> >
> > I have to manual rm -rf /dev/dvd for it to create the correct device, I
> > also have to rm -rf /dev/lirc, then
> >
> > rmmod lirc_i2c, lirc_dev and modprobe them again for it to create the
> > correct device.
> >
> > If I don't do this, lirc complains it's a directory.
> >
> > Why is this happening? Why is it creating these as directories and
> > preventing the modules attaching as a device?
> 
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