As promised yesterday, here is a patch to implement a more advanced pattern matching instead of the simple '*'. We can remove the "tty"="tty" line from udev.rules now and replace "tty*" by "tty[0-9]*" to catch only the vc's. thanks, Kay 02-the-real-pattern-matching.diff implement pattern matching in namedev '*' - to match zero or more chars '?' - to match exactly one char '[]' - character classes with ranges '[0-9]'and negation [!A]