Our program runs on a linux server (NAS) with 2 drives. In theory we can remove the drives from one of our clients servers and put it in another server and go. But every time I need to FIRST delete the 70-persistent-net.rules from the filesystem before placing the drives in another server. If I don't the server will not connect to network on the new machine. Can I create a cron job that deletes 70-persistent-net.rules after each reboot?
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You could, but there is probably an even better solution:
Either in /lib/udev/rules.d or in /etc/udev/rules.d, there should be a 80-persistent-net-generator.rules file (the number at the beginning may be different). This file is responsible for creating the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file.
If the *persistent-net-generator.rules file is in /etc/udev/rules.d, your NAS server is using a pretty old version of udev; you'll need to comment out the rules in the file, but keep the file so that your modification will be kept if/when the operating system of the NAS device is patched.
If the *persistent-net-generator.rules file is in /lib/udev/rules.d, there is a simpler way to override it: just create an empty file with the exact same filename in /etc/udev/rules.d.
Any file in /etc/udev/rules.d will completely override any file with the same name in /lib/udev/rules.d... if your system uses a version of udev that has /lib/udev/rules.d, that is.
