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group file: define groups expected by udev

PATCH New Danomi Manchego 2 participants 2 messages Nov 11, 2012

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PATCH 1/1 group file: define groups expected by udev

udev-182 requires several groups to be resolvable at udev startup, including disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, and kmem. Only some of these are in the default skeleton's group file, So let's add the missing groups, and plugdev too.

This avoids getting these logs in /var/logs/messages:

Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'dialout' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'kmem' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'video' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'lp' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'floppy' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'cdrom' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'tape' unknown
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 system/skeleton/etc/group |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
system/skeleton/etc/group +8 -0
index 8fc486d..864d1db 100644
@@ -5,10 +5,18 @@ sys:x:3:
 adm:x:4:
 tty:x:5:
 disk:x:6:
+lp:x:7:
+kmem:x:9:
 wheel:x:10:root
+cdrom:x:11:
+dialout:x:18:
+floppy:x:19:
+video:x:28:
 audio:x:29:
+tape:x:32:
 www-data:x:33:
 utmp:x:43:
+plugdev:x:46:
 staff:x:50:
 lock:x:54:
 haldaemon:x:68:
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PATCH 1/1 group file: define groups expected by udev

Quoted 15 lines · Danomi Manchego

udev-182 requires several groups to be resolvable at udev startup, including disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, and kmem. Only some of these are in the default skeleton's group file, So let's add the missing groups, and plugdev too.

This avoids getting these logs in /var/logs/messages:

Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'dialout' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'kmem' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'video' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'lp' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'floppy' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'cdrom' unknown
Jan  1 00:00:08 buildroot daemon.err udevd[37]: specified group 'tape' unknown
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Not tested or anything, but I agree with the principle and the patch looks
good.

Regards,
Arnout

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