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080427 Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:09 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I just had a run-in with Udev after updating to 119 . |
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>> It started when I went to back up a small file on diskette as usual |
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>> & I was told it couldn't access 'A:'. The cause turned out to be |
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>> a change in the permissions for /dev/fd0 to 640 . |
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>> After some investigation, incl a search of the Forum, |
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>> which had no direct advice, but pointed to a Wiki article, |
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>> I was able to write a local rule to set the permission back to 660 . |
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>> It does seem a bizarre change: does anyone have any comments ? |
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> Generally the rule setting permissions on fd0 is in 50-udev.rules, |
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> which can be edited to taste or you can copy the appropriate rule |
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> to 10-local.rules and make the change there. This does seem odd, |
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> unless there's supposed to be some other mechanism in place |
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> to change the permissions dynamically when a floppy is inserted. |
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Well, there's a big warning at the top of 50-udev not to edit it ! |
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I've never needed to fiddle with Udev rules before, |
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but I earlier did just what you suggest & all was well again. |
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> I'm only running udev-115-r1 which doesn't have this problem. |
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The problem arose after updating to 119 yesterday. |
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It does seem a strange change to make in the default Udev set-up. |
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