Date: 11 Mar 2003 15:34:29 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev and FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <448yvltzfu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1047414089.19993.17.camel@dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com> References: <1047414089.19993.17.camel@dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com>
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Michael J Ruhl <Mike.Ruhl@nokia.com> writes: > I use tcpdump pretty frequently, and on previous version of FreeBSD, I > could set the permissions of the bpf filters so that I could read them > (group access). > > With 5.0, it seems that I can only use tcpdump with root. How can I > specify that the bpf devices are created with group r when not created > by root? As the release notes indicated, devices are now implemented by devfs(5). See its manual page; looks like you want a rule to set the file modes on the node. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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