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I've followed tutorials to make this happen, but I've failed. My system is Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.18.0-031800-generic. I've searched for udev rule keys using udevadm monitor --env. Its output generated by rmmod module_name was

KERNEL[202.017039] remove /module/module_name (module)
ACTION=remove
DEVPATH=/module/module_name
SEQNUM=2052
SUBSYSTEM=module

UDEV [202.018837] remove /module/module_name (module)
ACTION=remove
DEVPATH=/module/module_name
SEQNUM=2052
SUBSYSTEM=module
USEC_INITIALIZED=17116

So I've created scripts (and marked them as executable for all) to create and remove node:

$ cat /usr/share/another_folder/make_node.sh
#!/bin/sh
mknod /dev/device_name c 89 1

$ cat /usr/share/another_folder/rm_node.sh
#!/bin/sh
rm /dev/device_name

And udev rule that uses them:

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/89-the-name.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="module", DEVPATH=="/module/module_name", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/share/another_folder/make_node.sh"

SUBSYSTEM=="module", DEVPATH=="/module/module_name", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/share/another_folder/rm_node.sh"

...but it doesn't work when I lo (even after restarting udev or rebooting system). dmesg doesn't show anything about the case:

$ dmesg |grep udev
[    0.928948] systemd-udevd[121]: starting version 204    
[    5.155707] systemd-udevd[316]: starting version 204

What am I missing?

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To see what happens you can run

sudo udevadm monitor

in one terminal and then trigger the wanted event with

sudo udevadm trigger --action=add --subsystem-match=module

The monitor will show the events seen by udev.

Your problem is probably that in your scripts mknod and rm are not found as no PATH is set by udev. Use absolute pathnames or set a PATH at the start of the scripts.

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