grml-udev-config for Debian
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grml.rules
==========
A custom rule file /etc/udev/z30_grml.rules is installed by the grml udev
package.  This file contains a udev rule to map USB-Pendrives (or USB-Sticks) to
the /dev/external* device nodes (or symlinks respectively). This allows us to
easily mount USB-Sticks on a grml System and you don't risk to accidentialy
overwrite your SCSI/S-ATA disk.
Note: These rules are deprecated in favour of the grml_usbdev rules mentioned
below. Nevertheless this way of accessing USB-Pendrives is retained for
backwards compatibility reasons.

grml_usbdev.rules
=================
The rule file /etc/udev/z31_grml_usbdev.rules is installed. The rules contained
in there allow simple access to USB devices like pendrives upon plugging them
in.  You'll get according symlinks in /dev (prefixed with 'usb-'), entries in
/etc/fstab (via rebuildfstab) and directories in /mnt according to available
labeled filesystems for free. On removal of the usb device the symlinks and
usb*-directories in /mnt will automatically vanish.

To prevent udev from automatically creating the directories and fstab entries
please rename the rules file by executing:

	mv z31_grml_usbdev.rules \#z31_grml_usbdev.rules

inside the directory /etc/udev/rules.d

Persistent network interfaces
=============================
Don't run write_net_rules on any occasion, it's evil on a Live-CD. The script is
still shipped and can be enabled manually to get persistent network interfaces
across reboots (e.g. after a hd-install). Just execute

	mv \#75_persistent-net-generator.rules 75_persistent-net-generator.rules

in /etc/udev/rules.d and reload the udev rules with 'udevcontrol reload_rules'
(as root)

Or better just see 'grml-tips udev' for other ways to get persistent network
interfaces.

SELinux support
===============
The udev version on grml is built without support for SELinux.

Various
=======
The generation of the udeb package has been disabled in debian/rules (by
removing BUILD_UDEB := 1) as this is not needed on grml. Some grml specific
functions have been added to the init script and to the maintainer scripts.

hg repository
==============
Since version 0.103-0grml1 this package is maintained in the grml hg repository
at http://hg.grml.org/udev. The version in the git repository at
http://git.distanz.ch is not maintained anymore.

 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:02:41 +0100