how to statically change permisson of /dev/.static

[antonmx]

Hi!

I have a small but unplesant problem. I've got some useful devices in the /dev/.static/dev directory (for example nvram device). However the directory /.static in /dev has the permission 0700, owner: root/root. What means that an ordinary user cannot access any devices under this directory even if they have the appropriate permission to it. I have tried to change the permission of the .static to 0755 and everything worked fine. But after reboot the they always return back to 0700.

Can anyone tell me how I can CONSTANTLY set the permission of /dev/.static to 0755? Or maybe there are other tricks which solves the problem?

Many thanks in advance.

[dawgie]

Hi!

I have a small but unplesant problem. I've got some useful devices in the /dev/.static/dev directory (for example nvram device). However the directory /.static in /dev has the permission 0700, owner: root/root. What means that an ordinary user cannot access any devices under this directory even if they have the appropriate permission to it. I have tried to change the permission of the .static to 0755 and everything worked fine. But after reboot the they always return back to 0700.

Can anyone tell me how I can CONSTANTLY set the permission of /dev/.static to 0755? Or maybe there are other tricks which solves the problem?

Many thanks in advance.

You can change the attributes to make the directory immutable with:
# chattr +i /dev/.static
This command did not used to work with reiser filesystem and was a bug with reiser that may have been fixed.

It would be better to get dynamic devices working. You can edit your /etc/udev/links.conf file to create devices and symlinks.

-Bob

[antonmx]

Thanks, I will try to play with the links.conf

I like the header of this file:
# This file does not exist. Please do not ask the debian maintainer about it.
# You may use it to do strange and wonderful things, at your risk.


This is what I like Linux for..)))