On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 20:14 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:30:09 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > udev dynamically creates partitions. > > > > "Great", you say, "but it's a PITA to 'sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog' > > every time I stick in my thumb drive. And doesn't pass the Aunt > > Tilly test, either!" > > > > udev lets you (wants you to, actually) create local rules in > > /etc/udev/rules.d. > > > > Attached are my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and /etc/fstab > > Ron, > > thanks so much for the explanation ! - I had a brief idea what udev is > supposed to do; but these days, there are so many interesting > developments in Open / Free Source, that I can't possibly work for my > money *and* follow all of those. > > I wonder, and I don't want to quarrel at all, about Aunt Tilly. I'm not, > I simply apt-get install udev; no warning (not that I saw); and my X is > gone Your GUI "disappeared"??????? > and so are my nodes in /dev/. That's ok, since udev makes them appear only on demand. > I am Aunt Tilly and find no X and no /dev/sda. No USB mass storage any > longer. > I am not Aunt Tilly, and know about linux.debian.user. After I vi-ed > XF86Config-4. There is quite a level of expertise required; and finally > Aunt Tilly ought to vi rules into /etc/udev/rules.d ? Aunt Tilly should only be running Debian with a geek relative in ssh range. An offshoot like Xandros, Ubuntu or Libranet should be her "stand alone" distro. > As I've said, just curious. > > Could someone give me a hint why on one notebook the same camera > automagically seems to end in sdi and in sda on the other one ? I dunno. With udev, though, it doesn't matter. > I'm asking for usability as well, here. Linux on the desktop is one of my > interests. Joe Sixpack won't dmesg to find his digital camera on sdi on a > D400 and won't find udev as means to download his pictures. > And when Joe wants to show his pictures to his wife, who happens to sit > in front of a I8100, he wouldn't know dmesg either, and would not know > to not install udev. That's what Xandros, Ubuntu and Libranet are for! They take raw, geeky Debian and configure it for you. > No question, I was Joe here. We all start out as Joe. > We still have quite a way to go, I'm afraid. It might be possible to write an app that lets Joe Sixpack write udev rules on the fly. > Thanks again, Ron, for your help ! > > Uwe > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it." George Orwell, 1941
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