1.\" $NetBSD: devpubd.8,v 1.5 2016/09/11 01:38:00 sevan Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2013 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Thomas Klausner. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 20.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 21.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 22.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd September 11, 2016 31.Dt DEVPUBD 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm devpubd 35.Nd device publish daemon for automatic device node creation 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl f 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40.Nm 41listens on 42.Xr drvctl 4 43for new devices and creates their device nodes using 44.Xr MAKEDEV 8 45if they are missing. 46.Pp 47When 48.Fl f 49is specified, 50.Nm 51does not go into the background. 52.Pp 53.Nm 54runs 55.Pa /libexec/devpubd-run-hooks . 56This script runs each script found in 57.Pa /libexec/devpubd-hooks 58in a lexical order with two arguments: 59.Ar device-attach 60or 61.Ar device-detach 62and the device file name. 63The default installation supplies the 64.Pa 01-makedev 65script for creating a device node and the 66.Pa 02-wedgenames 67script for creating symlinks to wedge devices under /dev/wedges. 68Additional scripts may be added for other dynamic device actions. 69.Sh SEE ALSO 70.Xr drvctl 8 , 71.Xr MAKEDEV 8 72.Sh HISTORY 73A 74.Nm 75utility appeared in 76.Nx 6.0 . 77