[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Hood wrote:

> It can't be done in an rc script?

That might work.  devfs appears to be mounted by the kernel rather than 
by an rc script or SystemStarter script, so it should be mounted by the 
time "init" is running, so you don't have to worry about making sure the 
ownership or permissions are set after devfs is mounted.

If you're setting the owner, you *do* have to make sure you have all the 
DirectoryServices stuff up (bound to a NetInfo server, bound to an LDAP 
server, blah blah blah), unless you want to use a numerical user name in 
the "chown" command; doing it as the last action in "/etc/rc" after 
SystemStarter is run *might* work, although I don't know whether it 
starts up anything asynchronously so that you'd have to wait for it to 
finish before you could rely on being able to look up user names. 
(Waiting for it to finish might slow down booting; hopefully it won't 
cause any deadlocks....)