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[udev] how to set a rule depending on the manufacturer or the serial number?

For example, how to adapt the line
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYMLINK+="myusb"
to filter according to the manufacturer or the serial number? Adding ATTR{Manufacturer}==6989 or ATTRS{Manufacturer}==6989 didn't work.

Also, the Nautilus call didn't work neither:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYMLINK+="myusb", RUN+="/usr/bin/nautilus"

Any idea what goes wrong?

Comments

  • For the serial number, it's ATTR{serial}=="serialnumber" as shown with command udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/myusb"

  • And for the manufacturer, it's ATTR{manufacturer}=="number"

  • lee42x
    lee42x Posts: 380

    I was having an interesting time changing the usb-key's name as it was busy with systems-udev, but that is another day.
    Here is an example of some udev commands to write a file. There is the udev-rule file and two tiny scripts. The idea was write to a file if the usb-key was plugged in or pulled out.

    98-usb-stick.rules

    #

    #

    #

    used "udevadm info -a /dev/sdb > /tmp/udev"

    to list related device information

    #

    skip to end if not a block device

    #
    SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="endoffile
    #

    look for the root device, not the partitions

    maybe add in "change" with "add"

    KERNEL=="sd?", ACTION=="add" \
    , ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Kingston"\
    , ATTRS{product}=="DataTraveler 2.0"\
    , ATTRS{serial}=="5B870E000068"\
    , RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-on.sh"

    KERNEL=="sd?", ACTION=="remove"\
    , ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Kingston"\
    , ATTRS{product}=="DataTraveler 2.0"\
    , ATTRS{serial}=="5B870E000068"\
    , RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-off.sh"

    LABEL="endoffile"

    usb-off.sh

    !/bin/bash

    echo "usb is offline " >>/tmp/usb.out
    /bin/date >> /tmp/usb.out

    usb-on.sh#!/bin/bash

    echo "usb is offline " >>/tmp/usb.out
    /bin/date >> /tmp/usb.out

    Yours should be similar.
    Regards, Lee

  • Hi Lee,
    Your scripts work great, thank you very much for the trick.
    At the end I tried to add /usr/bin/nautilus & but it doesn't launch, there must be something I don't know about Xorg that prevents it to do so...
    Regards, Thomas

  • Tried xdg-open /tmp/usb.out at the end but it doesn't work neither

  • coop
    coop Posts: 915

    I'm not 100 percent sure in this instance, but running Desktop GUI commands won't work when you launch things non-interactively from a script not attached to a terminal. This has nothing to do with udev, just try it from a bash script. They have to be run from the right context.

  • thomas.bucaioni
    thomas.bucaioni Posts: 207
    edited July 2021

    In this thread, it says to use ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}=="some.service": https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206555

  • luisviveropena
    luisviveropena Posts: 1,144

    Hi @thomas.bucaioni ,

    It seems SYSTEMD_WANTS is intended for other stuff. From the udev(7) man page:

    In order to activate long-running processes from udev rules,
    provide a service unit and pull it in from a udev device
    using the SYSTEMD_WANTS device property. See
    systemd.device(5) for details.

    Perhaps you can try with the RUN key, as shown in the man page:

    RUN{type}
    Specify a program to be executed after processing of all the
    rules for the event. With "+=", this invocation is added to
    the list, and with "=" or ":=", it replaces any previous
    contents of the list. Please note that both "program" and
    "builtin" types described below share a common list, so
    clearing the list with ":=" and "=" affects both types.

           type may be:
    
           "program"
               Execute an external program specified as the assigned
               value. If no absolute path is given, the program is
               expected to live in /usr/lib/udev; otherwise, the
               absolute path must be specified.
    
               This is the default if no type is specified.
    

    I understand you are playing around with udev, because this doesn't seem to be a real case example.

    Regards,
    Luis.

  • Hi @luisviveropena,
    With SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{serial}=="number", SYMLINK+="myusb", RUN+="/usr/bin/nautilus", ACTION=="add" it doesn't work neither.
    But yes, it's not a real case example indeed... It was to try to do the same as in Windows, no big deal
    Regards,
    Thomas

  • thomas.bucaioni
    thomas.bucaioni Posts: 207
    edited July 2021

    This works: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1709570#p1709570
    In Lee's script, it takes to add echo 'nautilus' >> execme.sh

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