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#1 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:21 PM

How does one, under Slackware 10.2, restart udev correctly after having
modified the udev.rules file? The rc.udev script under /etc/rc.d does not
offer many choices. This is all for a 2.6 kernel.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:23 PM

> How does one, under Slackware 10.2, restart udev correctly after having
> modified the udev.rules file? The rc.udev script under /etc/rc.d does not
> offer many choices. This is all for a 2.6 kernel.

killall -HUP udevd should do it.

But with a newer udev it is unnecessary since udevd will use inotify to
watch for changes in the rules files and reload them when changed. I'm not
sure which version of udev introduced this feature but it seems to be
documented http://vrfy.org/log/recent-state-of-udev.html written in
23.Dec.2005.

--
damjan

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