udev not running script: Almost there!

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Mar 9 16:35:49 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:40 -0300, Mariano López Reta wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:38 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > ----
> > #1 - any rules you create should NOT go into 50-udev.rules since, a)
> > that file gets replaced any time there is a udev package update and b)
> > rules are parsed alphabetically in the folder and the first rule wins so
> > 10-udev.rules would solve both those issues.
> > 
> > #2 - get the specific information about your device from either udevinfo
> > or usbview when the device is plugged in.
> > 
> > See this link for really good ideas...
> > 
> > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> Well, after careful reading, I restated 50-udev.rules to original state
> and wrote my own .rules as follows:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="tty" , NAME=="ttyUSB0" , SYSFS{dev}=="188:0" , PROGRAM+="/etc/udev/scripts/ipaq.sh"
> 
> since udevinfo -a -p /sys/class/tty/ttyUSB0 reports only SUBSYSTEM, NAME and SYSFS{dev}. 
> 
> I restarted udev with logging = info, and in /var/log/messages I saw that my script is in fact run, 
> but previous to the creation of /dev/ttyUSB0 so the commands contained in my script are useless. So, 
> how can I make my script run AFTER the creation of /dev/ttyUSB0? The creation is the last thing that udev do, 
> but I have no clue how to run something after that.
> 
> Any help or ideas will be appreciated.
> 
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I don't know because I haven't done it but is it possible to put a 10 or
15 second wait loop in your script to pause it until device is actually
mounted?

Craig




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