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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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