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Re: udev tutorials or howtos?



Hello,

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:21 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Do any such files exist?

As usually, see the docs in /usr/share/doc/udev/ and the manpages (use
"apropos udev" for the list of manpages related to udev).
Google is you friend too.

> Earlier I tried using mtools and even mount to 
> access a floppy disk and udev is configured to block access even to root. 

udev is merely a tool to populate /dev, and optionally change the owner
and group and permissions so not only root can access it.

udev won't prevent root from accessing those devices (that would be a
job for SELinux).

BTW, why don't you just mount the disk, rather than using the old mtools
thing?

> In future maybe mtools could talk to udev and give udev some clues and/or 
> instructions to tell it to create certain devices when those might not yet 
> exist.

Detecting hardware isn't udev's job.
If the module isn't loaded autoamtically, you need to load them manually
(or using /etc/modules)

Regards,

Franklin


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