technician4@projectbox:~$ udevadm monitor monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent KERNEL[1302909080.938138] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2 (usb) UDEV [1302909080.940797] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2 (usb) KERNEL[1302909080.945025] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1302909080.945396] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[1302909080.946635] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0/ttyUSB0 (usb-serial) UDEV [1302909080.946813] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0/ttyUSB0 (usb-serial) KERNEL[1302909080.947237] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0/ttyUSB0/tty/ttyUSB0 (tty) UDEV [1302909080.966388] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0/ttyUSB0/tty/ttyUSB0 (tty)