Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:22:43 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> To: xinopher@web.de Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot Message-ID: <41ACAC63.9050802@trini0.org> In-Reply-To: <350578163@web.de> References: <350578163@web.de>
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xinopher@web.de wrote: >Hi > >I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. > >Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: > >The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example >questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. > >5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 >crw------- 1 root operator 232, 0 Nov 30 14:35 /dev/ch0 > >While using 4.x I just did chmod g+rw /dev/ch0 during installation >of amanda and everything was fine, now rebooting a 5.3 machine >everything is not fine as the additional rights are gone... > >Is there a way to grant additional rights surviving reboots? >I can write a little script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but I do not think >that would be very cute :-( > On 5.3, look at the file /etc/devfs.conf
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