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   6 <refentry id="udevadm">
   7   <refentryinfo>
   8     <title>udevadm</title>
   9     <productname>systemd</productname>
  10     <authorgroup>
  11       <author>
  12         <contrib>Developer</contrib>
  13         <firstname>Kay</firstname>
  14         <surname>Sievers</surname>
  15         <email>kay@vrfy.org</email>
  16       </author>
  17     </authorgroup>
  18   </refentryinfo>
  19
  20   <refmeta>
  21     <refentrytitle>udevadm</refentrytitle>
  22     <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
  23     <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
  24   </refmeta>
  25
  26   <refnamediv>
  27     <refname>udevadm</refname><refpurpose>udev management tool</refpurpose>
  28   </refnamediv>
  29
  30   <refsynopsisdiv>
  31     <cmdsynopsis>
  32       <command>udevadm</command>
  33         <arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
  34         <arg><option>--version</option></arg>
  35         <arg><option>--help</option></arg>
  36     </cmdsynopsis>
  37     <cmdsynopsis>
  38       <command>udevadm info <replaceable>options</replaceable></command>
  39     </cmdsynopsis>
  40     <cmdsynopsis>
  41       <command>udevadm trigger <optional>options</optional></command>
  42     </cmdsynopsis>
  43     <cmdsynopsis>
  44       <command>udevadm settle <optional>options</optional></command>
  45     </cmdsynopsis>
  46     <cmdsynopsis>
  47       <command>udevadm control <replaceable>command</replaceable></command>
  48     </cmdsynopsis>
  49     <cmdsynopsis>
  50       <command>udevadm monitor <optional>options</optional></command>
  51     </cmdsynopsis>
  52     <cmdsynopsis>
  53       <command>udevadm hwdb <optional>options</optional></command>
  54     </cmdsynopsis>
  55     <cmdsynopsis>
  56       <command>udevadm test <optional>options</optional> <replaceable>devpath</replaceable></command>
  57     </cmdsynopsis>
  58     <cmdsynopsis>
  59       <command>udevadm test-builtin <optional>options</optional> <replaceable>command</replaceable> <replaceable>devpath</replaceable></command>
  60     </cmdsynopsis>
  61   </refsynopsisdiv>
  62
  63   <refsect1><title>Description</title>
  64     <para>udevadm expects a command and command specific options.  It
  65     controls the runtime behavior of udev, requests kernel events,
  66     manages the event queue, and provides simple debugging mechanisms.</para>
  67   </refsect1>
  68
  69   <refsect1><title>OPTIONS</title>
  70     <variablelist>
  71       <varlistentry>
  72         <term><option>--debug</option></term>
  73         <listitem>
  74           <para>Print debug messages to stderr.</para>
  75         </listitem>
  76       </varlistentry>
  77       <varlistentry>
  78         <term><option>--version</option></term>
  79         <listitem>
  80           <para>Print version number.</para>
  81         </listitem>
  82       </varlistentry>
  83       <varlistentry>
  84         <term><option>--help</option></term>
  85         <listitem>
  86           <para>Print help text.</para>
  87         </listitem>
  88       </varlistentry>
  89     </variablelist>
  90
  91     <refsect2><title>udevadm info <replaceable>options</replaceable></title>
  92       <para>Queries the udev database for device information
  93       stored in the udev database. It can also query the properties
  94       of a device from its sysfs representation to help creating udev
  95       rules that match this device.</para>
  96       <variablelist>
  97         <varlistentry>
  98           <term><option>--query=<replaceable>type</replaceable></option></term>
  99           <listitem>
 100             <para>Query the database for specified type of device data. It needs the
 101             <option>--path</option> or <option>--name</option> to identify the specified
 102             device. Valid queries are:
 103             <command>name</command>, <command>symlink</command>, <command>path</command>,
 104             <command>property</command>, <command>all</command>.</para>
 105           </listitem>
 106         </varlistentry>
 107         <varlistentry>
 108           <term><option>--path=<replaceable>devpath</replaceable></option></term>
 109           <listitem>
 110             <para>The devpath of the device to query.</para>
 111           </listitem>
 112         </varlistentry>
 113         <varlistentry>
 114           <term><option>--name=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></term>
 115           <listitem>
 116             <para>The name of the device node or a symlink to query</para>
 117           </listitem>
 118         </varlistentry>
 119         <varlistentry>
 120           <term><option>--root</option></term>
 121           <listitem>
 122             <para>Print absolute paths in <command>name</command> or <command>symlink</command>
 123             query.</para>
 124           </listitem>
 125         </varlistentry>
 126         <varlistentry>
 127           <term><option>--attribute-walk</option></term>
 128           <listitem>
 129             <para>Print all sysfs properties of the specified device that can be used
 130             in udev rules to match the specified device. It prints all devices
 131             along the chain, up to the root of sysfs that can be used in udev rules.</para>
 132           </listitem>
 133         </varlistentry>
 134         <varlistentry>
 135           <term><option>--export</option></term>
 136           <listitem>
 137             <para>Print output as key/value pairs. Values are enclosed in single quotes.</para>
 138           </listitem>
 139         </varlistentry>
 140         <varlistentry>
 141           <term><option>--export-prefix=<replaceable>name</replaceable></option></term>
 142           <listitem>
 143             <para>Add a prefix to the key name of exported values.</para>
 144           </listitem>
 145         </varlistentry>
 146         <varlistentry>
 147           <term><option>--device-id-of-file=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></term>
 148           <listitem>
 149             <para>Print major/minor numbers of the underlying device, where the file
 150             lives on.</para>
 151           </listitem>
 152         </varlistentry>
 153         <varlistentry>
 154           <term><option>--export-db</option></term>
 155           <listitem>
 156             <para>Export the content of the udev database.</para>
 157           </listitem>
 158         </varlistentry>
 159         <varlistentry>
 160           <term><option>--cleanup-db</option></term>
 161           <listitem>
 162             <para>Cleanup the udev database.</para>
 163           </listitem>
 164         </varlistentry>
 165         <varlistentry>
 166           <term><option>--version</option></term>
 167           <listitem>
 168             <para>Print version.</para>
 169           </listitem>
 170         </varlistentry>
 171         <varlistentry>
 172           <term><option>--help</option></term>
 173           <listitem>
 174             <para>Print help text.</para>
 175           </listitem>
 176         </varlistentry>
 177       </variablelist>
 178     </refsect2>
 179
 180     <refsect2><title>udevadm trigger <optional>options</optional></title>
 181       <para>Request device events from the kernel. Primarily used to replay events at system coldplug time.</para>
 182       <variablelist>
 183         <varlistentry>
 184           <term><option>--verbose</option></term>
 185           <listitem>
 186             <para>Print the list of devices which will be triggered.</para>
 187           </listitem>
 188         </varlistentry>
 189         <varlistentry>
 190           <term><option>--dry-run</option></term>
 191           <listitem>
 192             <para>Do not actually trigger the event.</para>
 193           </listitem>
 194         </varlistentry>
 195         <varlistentry>
 196           <term><option>--type=<replaceable>type</replaceable></option></term>
 197           <listitem>
 198             <para>Trigger a specific type of devices. Valid types are:
 199             <command>devices</command>, <command>subsystems</command>.
 200             The default value is <command>devices</command>.</para>
 201           </listitem>
 202         </varlistentry>
 203         <varlistentry>
 204           <term><option>--action=<replaceable>action</replaceable></option></term>
 205           <listitem>
 206             <para>Type of event to be triggered. The default value is <command>change</command>.</para>
 207           </listitem>
 208         </varlistentry>
 209         <varlistentry>
 210           <term><option>--subsystem-match=<replaceable>subsystem</replaceable></option></term>
 211           <listitem>
 212             <para>Trigger events for devices which belong to a matching subsystem. This option
 213             can be specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
 214           </listitem>
 215         </varlistentry>
 216         <varlistentry>
 217           <term><option>--subsystem-nomatch=<replaceable>subsystem</replaceable></option></term>
 218           <listitem>
 219             <para>Do not trigger events for devices which belong to a matching subsystem. This option
 220             can be specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
 221           </listitem>
 222         </varlistentry>
 223         <varlistentry>
 224           <term><option>--attr-match=<replaceable>attribute</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
 225           <listitem>
 226             <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs attribute. If a value is specified
 227             along with the attribute name, the content of the attribute is matched against the given
 228             value using shell style pattern matching. If no value is specified, the existence of the
 229             sysfs attribute is checked. This option can be specified multiple times.</para>
 230           </listitem>
 231         </varlistentry>
 232         <varlistentry>
 233           <term><option>--attr-nomatch=<replaceable>attribute</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
 234           <listitem>
 235             <para>Do not trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs attribute. If a value is
 236             specified along with the attribute name, the content of the attribute is matched against
 237             the given value using shell style pattern matching. If no value is specified, the existence
 238             of the sysfs attribute is checked. This option can be specified multiple times.</para>
 239           </listitem>
 240         </varlistentry>
 241         <varlistentry>
 242           <term><option>--property-match=<replaceable>property</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
 243           <listitem>
 244             <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching property value. This option can be
 245             specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
 246           </listitem>
 247         </varlistentry>
 248         <varlistentry>
 249           <term><option>--tag-match=<replaceable>property</replaceable></option></term>
 250           <listitem>
 251             <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching tag. This option can be
 252             specified multiple times.</para>
 253           </listitem>
 254         </varlistentry>
 255         <varlistentry>
 256           <term><option>--sysname-match=<replaceable>name</replaceable></option></term>
 257           <listitem>
 258             <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching sys device name. This option can be
 259             specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
 260           </listitem>
 261         </varlistentry>
 262         <varlistentry>
 263           <term><option>--parent-match=<replaceable>syspath</replaceable></option></term>
 264           <listitem>
 265             <para>Trigger events for all children of a given device.</para>
 266           </listitem>
 267         </varlistentry>
 268       </variablelist>
 269     </refsect2>
 270
 271     <refsect2><title>udevadm settle <optional>options</optional></title>
 272       <para>Watches the udev event queue, and exits if all current events are handled.</para>
 273       <variablelist>
 274         <varlistentry>
 275           <term><option>--timeout=<replaceable>seconds</replaceable></option></term>
 276           <listitem>
 277             <para>Maximum number of seconds to wait for the event queue to become empty.
 278             The default value is 120 seconds. A value of 0 will check if the queue is empty
 279             and always return immediately.</para>
 280           </listitem>
 281         </varlistentry>
 282         <varlistentry>
 283           <term><option>--seq-start=<replaceable>seqnum</replaceable></option></term>
 284           <listitem>
 285             <para>Wait only for events after the given sequence number.</para>
 286           </listitem>
 287         </varlistentry>
 288         <varlistentry>
 289           <term><option>--seq-end=<replaceable>seqnum</replaceable></option></term>
 290           <listitem>
 291             <para>Wait only for events before the given sequence number.</para>
 292           </listitem>
 293         </varlistentry>
 294         <varlistentry>
 295           <term><option>--exit-if-exists=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></term>
 296           <listitem>
 297             <para>Stop waiting if file exists.</para>
 298           </listitem>
 299         </varlistentry>
 300         <varlistentry>
 301           <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
 302           <listitem>
 303             <para>Do not print any output, like the remaining queue entries when reaching the timeout.</para>
 304           </listitem>
 305         </varlistentry>
 306         <varlistentry>
 307           <term><option>--help</option></term>
 308           <listitem>
 309             <para>Print help text.</para>
 310           </listitem>
 311         </varlistentry>
 312       </variablelist>
 313     </refsect2>
 314
 315     <refsect2><title>udevadm control <replaceable>command</replaceable></title>
 316       <para>Modify the internal state of the running udev daemon.</para>
 317       <variablelist>
 318         <varlistentry>
 319           <term><option>--exit</option></term>
 320           <listitem>
 321             <para>Signal and wait for systemd-udevd to exit.</para>
 322           </listitem>
 323         </varlistentry>
 324         <varlistentry>
 325           <term><option>--log-priority=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
 326           <listitem>
 327             <para>Set the internal log level of systemd-udevd. Valid values are the numerical
 328             syslog priorities or their textual representations: <option>err</option>,
 329             <option>info</option> and <option>debug</option>.</para>
 330           </listitem>
 331         </varlistentry>
 332         <varlistentry>
 333           <term><option>--stop-exec-queue</option></term>
 334           <listitem>
 335             <para>Signal systemd-udevd to stop executing new events. Incoming events
 336             will be queued.</para>
 337           </listitem>
 338         </varlistentry>
 339         <varlistentry>
 340           <term><option>--start-exec-queue</option></term>
 341           <listitem>
 342             <para>Signal systemd-udevd to enable the execution of events.</para>
 343           </listitem>
 344         </varlistentry>
 345         <varlistentry>
 346           <term><option>--reload</option></term>
 347           <listitem>
 348             <para>Signal systemd-udevd to reload the rules files and other databases like the kernel
 349             module index. Reloading rules and databases does not apply any changes to already
 350             existing devices; the new configuration will only be applied to new events.</para>
 351           </listitem>
 352         </varlistentry>
 353         <varlistentry>
 354           <term><option>--property=<replaceable>KEY</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
 355           <listitem>
 356             <para>Set a global property for all events.</para>
 357           </listitem>
 358         </varlistentry>
 359         <varlistentry>
 360           <term><option>--children-max=</option><replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
 361           <listitem>
 362             <para>Set the maximum number of events, systemd-udevd will handle at the
 363             same time.</para>
 364           </listitem>
 365         </varlistentry>
 366         <varlistentry>
 367           <term><option>--timeout=</option><replaceable>seconds</replaceable></term>
 368           <listitem>
 369             <para>The maximum number of seconds to wait for a reply from systemd-udevd.</para>
 370           </listitem>
 371         </varlistentry>
 372         <varlistentry>
 373           <term><option>--help</option></term>
 374           <listitem>
 375             <para>Print help text.</para>
 376           </listitem>
 377         </varlistentry>
 378       </variablelist>
 379     </refsect2>
 380
 381     <refsect2><title>udevadm monitor <optional>options</optional></title>
 382       <para>Listens to the kernel uevents and events sent out by a udev rule
 383       and prints the devpath of the event to the console. It can be used to analyze the
 384       event timing, by comparing the timestamps of the kernel uevent and the udev event.
 385       </para>
 386       <variablelist>
 387         <varlistentry>
 388           <term><option>--kernel</option></term>
 389           <listitem>
 390             <para>Print the kernel uevents.</para>
 391           </listitem>
 392         </varlistentry>
 393         <varlistentry>
 394           <term><option>--udev</option></term>
 395           <listitem>
 396             <para>Print the udev event after the rule processing.</para>
 397           </listitem>
 398         </varlistentry>
 399         <varlistentry>
 400           <term><option>--property</option></term>
 401           <listitem>
 402             <para>Also print the properties of the event.</para>
 403           </listitem>
 404         </varlistentry>
 405         <varlistentry>
 406           <term><option>--subsystem-match=<replaceable>string[/string]</replaceable></option></term>
 407           <listitem>
 408             <para>Filter events by subsystem[/devtype]. Only udev events with a matching subsystem value will pass.</para>
 409           </listitem>
 410         </varlistentry>
 411         <varlistentry>
 412           <term><option>--tag-match=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>
 413           <listitem>
 414             <para>Filter events by property. Only udev events with a given tag attached will pass.</para>
 415           </listitem>
 416         </varlistentry>
 417         <varlistentry>
 418           <term><option>--help</option></term>
 419           <listitem>
 420             <para>Print help text.</para>
 421           </listitem>
 422         </varlistentry>
 423       </variablelist>
 424     </refsect2>
 425
 426     <refsect2><title>udevadm hwdb <optional>options</optional></title>
 427       <para>Maintain the hardware database index in <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>.</para>
 428       <variablelist>
 429         <varlistentry>
 430           <term><option>--update</option></term>
 431           <listitem>
 432             <para>Compile the hardware database information located in /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/,
 433             /etc/udev/hwdb.d/ and store it in <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. This should be done after
 434             any update to the source files; it will not be called automatically. The running
 435             udev daemon will detect a new database on its own and does not need to be
 436             notified about it.</para>
 437           </listitem>
 438         </varlistentry>
 439         <varlistentry>
 440           <term><option>--test=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>
 441           <listitem>
 442             <para>Query the database with a modalias string, and print the
 443             retrieved properties.</para>
 444           </listitem>
 445         </varlistentry>
 446       </variablelist>
 447     </refsect2>
 448
 449     <refsect2><title>udevadm test <optional>options</optional> <replaceable>devpath</replaceable></title>
 450       <para>Simulate a udev event run for the given device, and print debug output.</para>
 451       <variablelist>
 452         <varlistentry>
 453           <term><option>--action=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>
 454           <listitem>
 455             <para>The action string.</para>
 456           </listitem>
 457         </varlistentry>
 458         <varlistentry>
 459           <term><option>--subsystem=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>
 460           <listitem>
 461             <para>The subsystem string.</para>
 462           </listitem>
 463         </varlistentry>
 464         <varlistentry>
 465           <term><option>--help</option></term>
 466           <listitem>
 467             <para>Print help text.</para>
 468           </listitem>
 469         </varlistentry>
 470       </variablelist>
 471     </refsect2>
 472
 473     <refsect2><title>udevadm test-builtin <optional>options</optional> <replaceable>command</replaceable> <replaceable>devpath</replaceable></title>
 474       <para>Run a built-in command for the given device, and print debug output.</para>
 475       <variablelist>
 476         <varlistentry>
 477           <term><option>--help</option></term>
 478           <listitem>
 479             <para>Print help text.</para>
 480           </listitem>
 481         </varlistentry>
 482       </variablelist>
 483     </refsect2>
 484   </refsect1>
 485
 486   <refsect1>
 487     <title>See Also</title>
 488     <para><citerefentry>
 489         <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
 490     </citerefentry>
 491     <citerefentry>
 492         <refentrytitle>systemd-udevd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
 493     </citerefentry></para>
 494   </refsect1>
 495 </refentry>