FC5t1: Udev doesn't set group and user ownership correctly

Kimmo Koivisto kimmo.koivisto at surfeu.fi
Tue Nov 29 19:15:29 UTC 2005


Hello

I'm using FC5t1, kernel 2.6.14-1.1719_FC5 and udev-075-4.
I have DVB card which works okay, but I would like to change default file 
ownership from root:root to kimmo:video for /dev/dvb*

I have added OWNER and GROUP parameters to the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules 
as follows:

# DVB
KERNEL=="dvb/*",                OWNER="kimmo",GROUP="video",MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dvb",                  OWNER="kimmo",GROUP="video",MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dvb/adapter*",         OWNER="kimmo",GROUP="video",MODE="0660"

Both user and group exist, but  udev does not change ownership properly:
<ls listing>
$ ls -lR /dev/dvb
/dev/dvb:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Nov 29 20:59 adapter0

/dev/dvb/adapter0:
total 0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 1 Nov 29 20:59 audio0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 6 Nov 29 20:59 ca0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 4 Nov 29 20:59 demux0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 5 Nov 29 20:59 dvr0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 3 Nov 29 20:59 frontend0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 7 Nov 29 20:59 net0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 8 Nov 29 20:59 osd0
crw------- 1 root video 212, 0 Nov 29 20:59 video0
</ls listing>

Is this udev problem or something else? If I remember correctly, I used the 
same kind of rule with FC4 and it worked okay.

Regards
Kimmo Koivisto




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