Am 30.10.19 um 00:37 schrieb John H Nyhuis: > hmmm, I thought := assigned a key just like +=, except := locked it so > it could not be changed later. Am I misunderstanding the man page for udev? > > Thanks, > > John H. Nyhuis > Desk: (206)-685-8334 > jnyhuis at uw.edu > Box 359461, 15th floor, 106 > > On 10/29/2019 4:31 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >> Am 29.10.19 um 23:41 schrieb John H Nyhuis: >>> Thanks, I did catch the mistype (after IU posted). Still no match with >>> the typo fixed... :-( >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> John H. Nyhuis >>> Desk: (206)-685-8334 >>> jnyhuis at uw.edu >>> Box 359461, 15th floor, 106 >>> >>> On 10/29/2019 4:03 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: >>>> In article <7025a0a8-1471-530d-dad0-3770e902ca31 at uw.edu>, >>>> John H Nyhuis <jnyhuis at uw.edu> wrote: >>>>> The mtx binary requires my tape library to be assigned a sg# driver, >>>>> but >>>>> the kernel periodically renumbers the sg devices. Normally, we would >>>>> write a udev rule to manually assign a persistent name, but it looks >>>>> like things have changed as I can't seem to get a match on CEntOS7. >>>>> I'd >>>>> appreciate any feedback or pointers to help me get my rule working. My >>>>> two attempts are below. >>>>> >>>>> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-local.rules >>>>> >>>>> KERNEL=="sg[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_generic", \ >>>>> ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="1QUANTUM_D0H0112430_LLA", SYMLINK+="sg8" >>>>> >>>>> SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi_genric", \ >>>>> ATTRS{model}=="Scalar i40-i80 ", SYMLINK:="sg8" >>>> >>>> You have a typo: scsi_genric instead of scsi_generic. >>>> >>>> Don't know if that is the reason. >>>> >> >> >> SYMLINK:="sg8" -> SYMLINK+="sg8" >> Could you try putting the link aside via SYMLINK+="mytape/mydevice". Is this feasible for you having it in a sub directory? -- Leon