#8 UDEV rules /lib/udev/... vs /etc/udev/...

[dulhaver]

apparently another thing where the course is outdated?

on my trusty 64 machine the rules are found in /lib/udev/rules.d/ while /etc/udev/rules.d/ (apart from a README) is empty.

Can it be that /lib/udev/rules.d/ are the default rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/ is meant for putting your own custom rules?

Also ... does anybody really understand the how .rules files work? When I look at them it's more like "yea, sure ... whatever"

[dulhaver]

that's the explanation apparently:

`cat /lib/udev/rules.d/README

...
These are not conffiles. If you want to override the behaviour, you
can do one of two things:

1. Write your own rules in /etc/udev/rules.d that assign the name,
   symlinks, permissions, etc. that you want. Pick a number higher
   than the rules you want to override, and yours will be used.

2. Copy the file to /etc/udev/rules.d and edit it there; you
   should generally only do this if you want to prevent a program
   from being run.

still, hard time to understand this really. was Anybody able to solve LAB 8.1 without looking at the solution?