From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev.rules can't set group or mode?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:12:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154124747.3204.28.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eac3k5$ces$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 16:25 +1200, Morgan Read wrote:
> I don't seem to be able to set the mode or group for '/dev/ttyUSB1'
>
> Following Daniel Drake's howto here:
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>
> Without the rule:
> '/dev/ttyUSB1' has group=uucp and mode\x0660.
>
> With the rule (DRIVER="ark3116", NAME="nokiaca42clone",
> SYMLINK="ttyUSB%n", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0666"):
> '/dev/nokiaca42clone' and '/dev/ttyUSB1' (a symlink) get made OK, but
> with group=root and mode\x0600 (not 'uucp' and '0666').
>
> Here's output of udevtest:
> [morgan@morgansmachine ~]$ udevtest /class/tty/ttyUSB1
> main: looking at device '/class/tty/ttyUSB1' from subsystem 'tty'
> udev_rules_get_name: reset symlink list
> udev_rules_get_name: add symlink 'ttyUSB1'
> udev_rules_get_name: rule applied, 'ttyUSB1' becomes 'nokiaca42clone'
> create_node: creating device node '/dev/nokiaca42clone', major = '188',
> minor = '1', mode = '0600', uid = '0', gid = '0'
> create_node: creating symlink '/dev/ttyUSB1' to 'nokiaca42clone'
> main: run: 'socket:/org/kernel/udev/monitor'
> main: run: '/lib/udev/udev_run_devd'
> main: run: 'socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event'
> main: run: '/sbin/pam_console_apply /dev/nokiaca42clone /dev/ttyUSB1
A similar rule works for me. What version of udev is that?
Why do you rename the device instead of creating just a link?
And better use "+=" for symlinks, and '=' for compares like DRIVER,
'"' assignes values.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-28 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 4:25 udev.rules can't set group or mode? Morgan Read
2006-07-28 22:12 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2006-07-29 11:29 ` Morgan Read
2006-07-29 11:47 ` Kay Sievers
2006-07-30 5:02 ` Morgan Read
2006-07-30 10:19 ` Kay Sievers
2006-07-31 21:55 ` Morgan Read
2006-08-01 12:23 ` Kay Sievers
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