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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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devfsadm Administration Command for /dev and /devices

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/devfsadm [-C][-c device-class][-i driver-name][-n]
  [-r root-dir][-s][-t table-file][-v]
/usr/lib/devfsadm/devfsadmd

Description

The devfsadm command is new in the Solaris 8 release. devfsadm maintains the /dev and /devices namespaces. Because the devfsadm daemon, devfsadmd(1M), automatically detects device configuration changes generated by any reconfiguration event, you do not need to run this command interactively.

The devfsadm command replaces the previous suite of devfs administration commands including drvconfig(1M)—which managed the physical device entries in the ...

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