From 4102e8385f2afdcee46935c3dc038af099d856c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 23:25:21 +0000
Subject: add documentation that the rules need to be reloaded, and how to do
 it...

MFC after:	1 week
---
 sbin/devfs/devfs.8           | 14 ++++++++++++--
 share/man/man5/devfs.rules.5 | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sbin/devfs/devfs.8 b/sbin/devfs/devfs.8
index 01aaf2954606..4a9c42b7ebc5 100644
--- a/sbin/devfs/devfs.8
+++ b/sbin/devfs/devfs.8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd October 5, 2016
+.Dd December 1, 2020
 .Dt DEVFS 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ utility provides an interface to manipulate properties of
 .Xr devfs 5
 mounts.
 .Pp
+The rules, by default as configured by
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf ,
+are loaded at boot via the devfs
+.Xr service 8 .
+The rules can be reloaded by running the command:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+service devfs restart
+.Ed
+.Pp
 The
 .Ar keyword
 argument determines the context for
@@ -374,7 +383,8 @@ this feature can be used to copy rulesets:
 .Xr devfs.rules 5 ,
 .Xr chown 8 ,
 .Xr jail 8 ,
-.Xr mknod 8
+.Xr mknod 8 ,
+.Xr service 8
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
diff --git a/share/man/man5/devfs.rules.5 b/share/man/man5/devfs.rules.5
index ca62377f989d..07e2963911d0 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/devfs.rules.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/devfs.rules.5
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd February 21, 2010
+.Dd December 1, 2020
 .Dt DEVFS.RULES 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ file:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 devfs_system_ruleset="localrules"
 .Ed
+.Pp
+The rules are loaded at boot via the devfs service.
+To load modified rules after the system has booted, run the command:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+service devfs restart
+.Ed
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -compact -width Pa
 .It Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules
@@ -122,7 +128,8 @@ group, a similar rule may be used:
 .Xr glob 3 ,
 .Xr devfs 5 ,
 .Xr devfs.conf 5 ,
-.Xr devfs 8
+.Xr devfs 8 ,
+.Xr service 8
 .Sh AUTHORS
 This manual page was written by
 .An Roland Smith Aq Mt rsmith@xs4all.nl .
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