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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:06, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:03:17PM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 11:59, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> > > Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 11:00, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:32:35AM -0500, David Michael Leo Brown Jr.
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > > Also remember the GROUP="<group>" field.  Don't know what led them
> > > > > to change things this way but... okay
> > > >
> > > > They wanted to have all policy related to device nodes in one place
> > > > with one syntax instead of two files with different syntax. There was
> > > > quite a bit of flamage about that change on the linux-hotplug list,
> > > > but that's how they decided to do it.
> > > >
> > > > > > I'm just putting this out now, since it seems no other notice was
> > > > > > given. The new version of udev, in test no longer uses the
> > > > > > udev.permissions file.  It's all part of the udev.rules file. 
> > > > > > Make sure you update your udev.rules file before you reboot.  The
> > > > > > new parameter is 'MODE="####"'
> > >
> > > It seems that several people are not aware of the new configure stuff
> > > and think the >0.50 versions are buggy....
> > > I think we should add a comment at the end of install, perhaps during a
> > > month or two.... And also copy the new udev.rules in
> > > /etc/udev/udev.rules I can take care of that if needed.
> >
> > Ooops, I wanted to say "copy the new udev.rules
> > in /etc/udev/udev.rules.example"
>
> Sounds good to me, please do that.
also, please be aware that if you have previously modified udev.rules, it 
will 
not be replaced by a normal cast.  In this case I had to manually move the 
file, recast udev and then run udevstart
-- 
Regards, Treeve