mkdevmaps(1M)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SUMMARY OF TRUSTED SOLARIS CHANGES | SEE ALSO

NAME

mkdevmaps- Make device_maps entries

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/mkdevmaps

DESCRIPTION

The mkdevmaps command writes to standard out a set of device_maps(4) entries describing the system's frame buffer, audio and removable media devices.

The mkdevmaps command is used by the init.d(4) scripts to create or update the /etc/security/device_maps file.

Entries are generated based on the device special files found in /dev. For the different categories of devices, the mkdevmaps command checks for the following files under /dev:

audio           /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl, /dev/sound/...
tape            /dev/rst*, /dev/nrst*, /dev/rmt/...
floppy          /dev/diskette, /dev/fd*, /dev/rdiskette, /dev/rfd*
removable disk  /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s?
frame buffer    /dev/fb

FILES

The following files are used by the mkdevmaps command:

/etc/security/device_maps

Administrative file defining the mapping of device special files to allocatable device names.

/etc/security/device_allocate

Administrative file defining parameters for device allocation.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsu

SUMMARY OF TRUSTED SOLARIS CHANGES

The fb device is added. The names of some devices are changed:

                Solaris    Trusted Solaris
tape            st0,1,...  mag_tape_0,1,...
floppy          fd0,1,...  floppy_0,1,...
removable disk  sr0,1,...  cdrom_0,1,...

SEE ALSO

Trusted Solaris 8 Reference Manual

allocate(1M), deallocate(1M), mkdevalloc(1M), device_allocate(4), device_maps(4)

SunOS 5.8 Reference Manual

attributes(5)

Trusted Solaris 8  Last Revised 22 Sep 2000

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SUMMARY OF TRUSTED SOLARIS CHANGES | SEE ALSO