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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:34:22AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Robin Cook wrote:
> > This is the third machine in a row that the udev rules are not working
> > correctly.
> >
> > The /dev/null  is getting set to 600 instead of 666.  Also none of the
> > MODE changes I put in 00-local.rules gets set.
> >
> > The oly way I can get things to work is to comment out the first rule
> > KERNEL="*", OWNER="root" GROUP="root", MODE="0600"
> >
> > And then make all my other MODE changes in 50-default.rules
> 
> I believe this is caused by udev using the first matching rule it
> finds. Therefore (and I haven't gone and read any documentation, just
> guessing here ;)) we would want the generic rules listed last (e.g.
> 99-local.rules).
 
In fact udev uses _all_ rules that match. If two of those specify the
same attributes the last one is used.
For local rules that should override any rules in 50-default, use
OPTIONS="last_rule".

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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