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Nixie

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 51

I don't understand how udev rule work

I had a problem with xsane only running as root a while ago and so copied a udev rule into /etc/udev/rules.d

The scanner was then detected and added to the scanner group and I could use it. I've very recently had to do the same with a different scanner. But in both cases the same rule already existed in /lib/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules

Why was this not used in the first place? Is there something wrong with my udev that it would not look in /lib/udev/rules.d and find the correct rule... or are people supposed to copy them over from /lib/udev/rules.d to /etc/udev/rules.d ?!?

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Re: I don't understand how udev rule work

http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

Read that front to back and you'll know how it works .

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