System Administration Commands                     mkdevalloc(1M)



NAME
     mkdevalloc - Make deviceallocate entries

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/mkdevalloc


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


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


     Entries are generated based  on  the  device  special  files
     found  in /dev. For the different categories of devices, the
     mkdevalloc 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/sr*, /dev/nsr*, /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s?
       frame buffer    /dev/fb



     All entries set the device-minimum and device-maximum fields
     to  the  hex  representations  of  ADMINLOW and ADMINHIGH,
     respectively.  The  device-authorization  field  is  set  to
     solaris.device.allocate,  except  for the framebuffer entry,
     where it is set  to  *.  The  device-name,  device-type  and
     device-clean fields are set to the following values:

                       device-name      device-type   device-clean

       audio           audio            audio         audiocleanwrapper
       tape            magtape0,1,... st            stclean
       floppy          floppy0,1,...   fd            diskclean
       removable disk  cdrom0,1,...    sr            diskclean
       frame buffer    framebuffer      fb            /bin/true


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:






SunOS 5.11           Last change: 8 Oct 2003                    1






System Administration Commands                     mkdevalloc(1M)



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWcsu                     
    
     Interface Stability          Obsolete                    
    


SEE ALSO
     allocate(1), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES
     mkdevalloc might not be supported in a future release of the
     Solaris operating system.








































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