[CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

James Pearson james-p at moving-picture.com
Mon Jun 13 22:04:18 UTC 2011


James A. Peltier wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've written a custom udev rule to change the permissions of /dev/ttyS* but it doesn't seem to be working at boot up.  If I run
> 
>   /sbin/udevcontrol reload_rules; udevtrigger
> 
> The rules are parsed, applied and the permissions are then correct but why is it not doing so at boot?  The file in questions I've called /etc/udev/rules.d/49-udev-override.rules and it contains
> 
> KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*",            NAME="%k", GROUP="rcl", MODE="0660", OPTIONS="last_rule"
> 
> the default 50-udev.rules file has been left untouched.  SELinux is in permissive mode and so I can't find a reason why it is happening.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 

The thread starting at:

<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079133.html>

may gives some clues

James Pearson



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