The file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
is auto-generated on a Linux system with udev, if it does not exist, during reboot. But I would like to know how to create this rules file (with a command) without rebooting the server.
I was Googling around for a while and found that the rules file is generated by this script:
/lib/udev/write_net_rules
However, it is impossible to run this script from command line, since (I assume) it wants to be started by udev, with some environment variables set properly. Starting it manually prints error message "missing $INTERFACE". Even if I set env variable INTERFACE=eth0 prior the starting of the script, it still prints error "missing valid match". Not to mention I have two interfaces (eth0
and eth1
) and I want the rules file generated for both.
I was also thinking to trigger udev events like this, hoping it will start the script from udev itself, but nothing changes:
udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=change
So, does anybody know how to regenerate the persistent net rules in file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
without reboot?
Best Answer
According to man page
--action=change
is the default value forudevadm
.Therefore you better try
--action=add
instead. It should help: