Invalid filename char in serial number

[Timothe Litt]

I'm just a user, but perhaps this will help.

I encountered this on Fedora, which doesn't automagically install the UDEV
rules under fedora because it doesn't bother to distinguish Fedora from
CentOS.

Got this response:
"Most udev-based systems replace '/' with either '_' or '.', both of which
our software can handle.  (Unfortunately, we do not control the serial
number of these devices; they are the unique IDs provided by the CPU inside
each device.)"

I manually symlinked /lib/udev/rules.d/60-UDEKEY01.rules ->
../../../usr/share/ekeyd/60-UDEKEY01.rules to get things to work.  That
doesn't help with CentOS, of course.

But I presume that if you do something like sed -e 's|/|_|g' on the serial
number, things will work for you.

Good luck.

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-----Original Message-----
From: entropykey-users-bounces at lists.simtec.co.uk
[mailto:entropykey-users-bounces at lists.simtec.co.uk] On Behalf Of Steve
Snyder
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 23:02
To: entropykey-users at lists.simtec.co.uk
Subject: Invalid filename char in serial number

Hello.

The WARNING file from the ekeyd v1.1.3 package says to do this for
RHEL5/Centos5:

[root at centos5 ~]# mkdir -p /var/run/entropykeys
[root at centos5 ~]# ekey-ulusbd -b002 -d007
-p/var/run/entropykeys/keyserialnumber
-P/var/run/ekey-ulusbd-keyserialnumber.pid -D

Hmmmm.  Yes, well, my serial number has a '/' character in it, which
precludes using it as a file or directory name.

What to do?

Thanks.

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