On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:58 PM, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure that the output of PROGRAM is parsed the same way it is for > IMPORT - in fact, I think it's just ignored for PROGRAM - Kay? Anyway, > the general idea is something like this According to udev(7) on this RHEL5.4 machine (udev-095-14.21.el5), RESULT can be matched against the output of the last PROGRAM call and $result or %c can be use in substitutions. Still, the idea of reading both the serial number and the port number from the logger would allow me to get by with a single udev rule along the lines of what you wrote. Thanks much for your input. Looks like exactly what I needed. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html