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diff --git a/chapter08/eudev.xml b/chapter08/eudev.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 785e70103..000000000 --- a/chapter08/eudev.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,202 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> - %general-entities; -]> - -<sect1 id="ch-system-eudev" role="wrap" revision="sysv"> - <?dbhtml filename="eudev.html"?> - - <sect1info condition="script"> - <productname>eudev</productname> - <productnumber>&eudev-version;</productnumber> - <address>&eudev-url;</address> - </sect1info> - - <title>Eudev-&eudev-version;</title> - - <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev"> - <primary sortas="a-Eudev">Eudev</primary> - </indexterm> - - <sect2 role="package"> - <title/> - - <para>The Eudev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device - nodes.</para> - - <segmentedlist> - <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> - <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> - - <seglistitem> - <seg>&eudev-fin-sbu;</seg> - <seg>&eudev-fin-du;</seg> - </seglistitem> - </segmentedlist> - </sect2> - - <sect2 role="installation"> - <title>Installation of Eudev</title> - <!-- No longer seems needed. bdubbs 5/18/23 - <para>First fix the location of udev rules in the .pc file:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/udevdir/a udev_dir=${udevdir}' src/udev/udev.pc.in</userinput></screen> ---> - <!-- different from systemd: we do not have a render group and file is - named differently --> - <para>Remove an unneeded group - <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev - rules:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules/50-udev-default.rules</userinput></screen> - - <para>Prepare Eudev for compilation:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \ - --bindir=/usr/sbin \ - --sysconfdir=/etc \ - --enable-manpages \ - --disable-static</userinput></screen> - - <para>Compile the package:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen> - - <para>Create some directories now that are needed for tests, but - will also be used as a part of installation:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="test">mkdir -pv /usr/lib/udev/rules.d -mkdir -pv /etc/udev/rules.d</userinput></screen> - - <para>To test the results, issue:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen> - - <para>Install the package:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen> - - <para>Install some custom rules and support files useful in an LFS - environment:</para> - -<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../&udev-lfs-version;.tar.xz -make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen> - - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="conf-eudev" role="configuration"> - <title>Configuring Eudev</title> - - <indexterm zone="conf-eudev"> - <primary sortas="a-Eudev">Eudev</primary> - <secondary>configuring</secondary> - </indexterm> - - <indexterm zone="conf-eudev"> - <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules">/etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules</primary> - </indexterm> - - <para> - The default udev rule installed by Eudev would allow all users to - access <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors - consider it dangerous. Create a configuration file to override it: - </para> - -<screen><userinput>cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules << "EOF" -<literal>KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"</literal> -EOF</userinput></screen> - - <indexterm zone="conf-eudev"> - <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary> - </indexterm> - - <para>Information about hardware devices is maintained in the - <filename class="directory">/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and - <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> directories. - <application>Eudev</application> needs that information to be compiled - into a binary database <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. Create the - initial database:</para> - -<screen><userinput>udevadm hwdb --update</userinput></screen> - - <para>This command needs to be run each time the hardware information is - updated.</para> - - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="contents-eudev" role="content"> - <title>Contents of Eudev</title> - - <segmentedlist> - <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> - <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle> - <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle> - - <seglistitem> - <seg><!-- These are in /usr/lib/udev and not to be called by the user: - accelerometer, ata_id, cdrom_id, collect, mtd_probe, - scsi_id, v4l_id,--> udevadm and udevd</seg> - - <seg>libudev.so</seg> - - <seg>/etc/udev, /usr/lib/udev, and /usr/share/doc/udev-&udev-lfs-version;</seg> - </seglistitem> - </segmentedlist> - - <variablelist> - <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> - <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> - <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> - <varlistentry id="udevadm" revision="sysv"> - <term><command>udevadm</command></term> - <listitem> - <para>Generic udev administration tool: controls the udevd daemon, - provides info from the Udev database, monitors uevents, waits for - uevents to finish, tests Udev configuration, and triggers uevents - for a given device</para> - <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev udevadm"> - <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary> - </indexterm> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry id="udevd"> - <term><command>udevd</command></term> - <listitem> - <para>A daemon that listens for uevents on the netlink socket, - creates devices and runs the configured external programs in - response to these uevents</para> - <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev udevd"> - <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary> - </indexterm> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry id="libudev"> - <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term> - <listitem> - <para>A library interface to udev device information</para> - <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev libudev"> - <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary> - </indexterm> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry id="etc-udev"> - <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term> - <listitem> - <para>Contains Udev configuration files, - device permissions, and rules for device naming</para> - <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev etc-udev"> - <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary> - </indexterm> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - - </sect2> - -</sect1> |