Documentation Correction
Marc Fonvieille
blackend at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 7 17:58:19 UTC 2008
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:57:45PM +0200, junk wrote:
> Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:07:51PM +0200, junk wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/usb-disks.html
> >>
> >> 18.5.2 Testing the Configuration
> >> ...
> >> This is accomplished by adding these lines to /etc/devfs.rules:
> >>
> >> [localrules=1]
> >> add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator
> >>
> >> It should probably be [localrules=10]. I followed handbook and it didn't
> >> work until I changed it to [localrules=10] (I found it elsewhere).
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know it will not help things, but [localrules=1] works here under
> > 7.1-PRERELEASE
> >
> >
> Hello,
>
> yes, it does not help things. Important is, if [localrules=10] works for
> both you and me (and for other releases of FreeBSD). I'm FreeBSD newbie
> and it took me a lot of time to realize that handbook is probably not
> quite correct (maybe some typo?).
>
> By the way: I have FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
>
> So my question is: is it a mistake or not? If it is, correct it.
>
In fact, in the doc, [localrules=5] should be better cause
/etc/defaults/devfs.rules already defines 4 rulesets. I just changed
the Handbook on this point. However, [localrules=1] should work.
--
Marc
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