On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Ives, Keith-P59429 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to determine if I need utdevmgrd to run on my network. > I get annoying messages produced by utdevmgrd > (daemon.warning) …symlink Permission Denied /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802...
That's strange. utdevmgrd usually runs with all privileges and therefore wouldn't expect to be denied permission to manipulate symlinks. Is there something unusual about the way /tmp is mounted on this machine? > We disable the use of USB devices ( security policy ) via "utdevadm -d -s > usb" > I also disable utstoraged via RC scripts Disabling arbitrary SRSS processes is not a supportable activity. If there's a definite reason why you need to be able to do this then please file an RFE so that SRSS can provide a supported way of meeting your needs. Turning off utstoraged should be unnecessary if you've turned off USB device access by using utdevadm, but don't think it will hurt anything. If you've edited an SRSS rc scripts to make this happen then that's also unsupported and it could be undone by a patch or (definitely) by an SRSS update. > The man page for utdevmgrd gives me the impression I can turn it off, just > not sure if the purpose of this daemon is restricted to ONLY external > devices on DTUs. utdevmgrd manages the ownership of USB peripherals (except for "human interface devices" like mice and keyboards) attached to DTUs, it manages the ownership of native serial devices on DTU models that have them, and it coordinates application access to the DTU's smartcard terminal (aka its "smartcard reader"). If you don' t care about any of those things then the worst that should happen if you disable utdevmgrd (apart from leaving you with an unsupportable configuration) is that you might get whiny syslog messages from other SRSS processes on this machine, from DTUs and from other in-group servers where utdevmgrd is still running. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
