udevadm monitor

Category: Administration

udevadm monitor

Watch kernel and udev events live

Prints device events as they happen, prefixed with KERNEL for the raw kernel event and UDEV for the processed event after rules run. Plug in a device or run udevadm trigger in another terminal to see activity. Useful for debugging why a rule did or did not fire.
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