# You may comment out the above and uncomment the following if you've
# configured your system to use the original "new" devfs names or the really
# new names
#REGISTER ^vc/ MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER ^vc/ RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER ^pty/ MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER ^pty/ RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER ^misc/ MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER ^misc/ RMOLDCOMPAT
# You may comment these out if you don't use the original "new" names
REGISTER .* MKNEWCOMPAT
UNREGISTER .* RMNEWCOMPAT
# Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use
# autoloading
LOOKUP .* MODLOAD
# Uncomment the following if you want to set the group to "tty" for the
# pseudo-tty devices. This is necessary so that mesg(1) can later be used to
# enable/disable talk requests and wall(1) messages.
#REGISTER ^pty/s.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600
#REGISTER ^pts/.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600
#
# Uncomment this if you want permissions to be saved and restored
# Do not do this for pseudo-terminal devices
#REGISTER ^pt[sy] IGNORE
#CREATE ^pt[sy] IGNORE
#CHANGE ^pt[sy] IGNORE
#DELETE ^pt[sy] IGNORE
#REGISTER .* COPY /dev-state/$devname $devpath
#CREATE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
#CHANGE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
#DELETE .* CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink /dev-state/$devname
#RESTORE /dev-state
#
# Uncomment this if you want the old /dev/cdrom symlink
#REGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrom
#UNREGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom
REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.sound 660
REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.sound 660
# Uncomment this to let PAM manage devfs
#REGISTER .* CFUNCTION /lib/security/pam_console_apply_devfsd.so pam_console_apply_single $devpath
# Uncomment this to manage USB mouse
REGISTER ^input/mouse0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname usbmouse
UNREGISTER ^input/mouse0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink usbmouse
REGISTER ^input/mice$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname usbmouse
UNREGISTER ^input/mice$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink usbmouse
# If you have removable media and want to force media revalidation when looking
# up new or old compatibility names, uncomment the following lines
# SCSI NEWCOMPAT /dev/sd/* names
#LOOKUP ^(sd/c[0-9]+b[0-9]+t[0-9]+u[0-9]+)p[0-9]+$ EXECUTE /bin/dd if=$mntpnt/1 of=/dev/null count=1
# SCSI OLDCOMPAT /dev/sd?? names
#LOOKUP ^(sd[a-z]+)[0-9]+$ EXECUTE /bin/dd if=$mntpnt/1 of=/dev/null count=1
# IDE NEWCOMPAT /dev/ide/hd/* names
#LOOKUP ^(ide/hd/c[0-9]+b[0-9]+t[0-9]+u[0-9]+)p[0-9]+$ EXECUTE /bin/dd if=$mntpnt/1 of=/dev/null count=1
# IDE OLDCOMPAT /dev/hd?? names
#LOOKUP ^(hd[a-z])[0-9]+$ EXECUTE /bin/dd if=$mntpnt/1 of=/dev/null count=1
also did you reboot or restart devfsd after adding the permissions? did you log out then in? it could be one of these as well but post your devfsd.conf first please.
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