Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting when a USB device is attached

[Jan Callewaert <jan.callewaert@gmail.com>]

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Op maandag 6 februari 2006 07:54, schreef Canek Peláez:
> GNOME 2.12 do this for you, if you put yourself in the plugdev group.
> It just works.
>
> Canek
>

Just like KDE 3.5

Jan

> On 2/5/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:09:43 -0500, James Colby wrote:
> > > I was wondering if anybody knew of a package or a method that I could
> > > use to detect when a USB mass storage device is attached to my PC.
> > > What I would like to be able to do is to write a small script that
> > > would mount my USB mass storage device, sync up a directory, and then
> > > unmount the device everytime I plug my USB drive into the computer.
> >
> > Udev will take care of this. all you need is a udev rule that matches the
> > particular device and calls a script that carries out the actions you
> > want. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for plenty on writing
> > udev rules.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil Bothwick
> >
> > Newsflash! Explosion at M$ beta testsite - Infinite number of monkeys
> > killed.
>
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

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