From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8fkE-0006xq-V0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:35:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FACFE0881; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4673CE0C3E for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A24F80882 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:34:01 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:33:55 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-( Message-ID: <20120316223355.2ecb6904@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <8225478.pI6nOTGxz4@eve> References: <20120312092432.GA2959@acm.acm> <2447631.Yi3LRrrIq7@eve> <20120316084605.4c76a623@digimed.co.uk> <8225478.pI6nOTGxz4@eve> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs33 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/WceZcnHmVUsQSRuxY8k/6Wa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 10386a30-31dc-401e-a717-5dbbdd3c928f X-Archives-Hash: 9e5805850d3140dbda02bf250da833da --Sig_/WceZcnHmVUsQSRuxY8k/6Wa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:03 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > This is for running programs from the computer against the device, not > > autorunning programs on the device - such as initialising USB > > modems. =20 >=20 > How long till autorunning programs becomes "the next great thing" on > the desktop for Linux? When people want them... or when Canonical tell people they want them :( > > > That is, untill someone comes up with the "clever" idea of shoving > > > an automounter into udev. (Will it then also auto-unmount when I > > > want my CD back?) =20 > >=20 > > That's already been done, > >=20 > > * sys-apps/uam > > Available versions: 0.2.1 (~)0.3 > > Homepage: https://github.com/mgorny/uam/ > > Description: Simple udev-based automounter for removable > > USB media =20 >=20 > This is an automounter, not autounmounter... You said automounter. > What I would like is one where a CDrom is automounted when inserted and > when I press the eject-button, the cdrom is umounted and I get my cd > back... That would require a more intelligent optical drive that sent a signal to the computer when the eject button was pressed. The computer could then run the eject command, which also unmounts the drive. Although that seem more the province of ACPI than udev. =20 > > I also have a rule on a headless media server to run a script that > > mounts a USB stick, copies files to it, unmounts it and lets me know > > when it is done. I can mark files for copying at any time and my wife > > can just plug in a stick when she wants to copy them for viewing on a > > small, non-connected TV by her treadmill (her treadmill, I emphasise > > - I find a keyboard and trackball give me all the exercise I want). =20 >=20 > Why not connect that TV? ;) Because the hardware to do so would cost around =A3100, USB sticks cost rather less :P --=20 Neil Bothwick Puns are bad, but poetry is verse... --Sig_/WceZcnHmVUsQSRuxY8k/6Wa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9jv9cACgkQum4al0N1GQMzlwCeLP66lizqtrYEVWCQiWuqpHLH m6MAmwdmVfoxdVJ0HuALq5FChRV6AI7O =23XJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/WceZcnHmVUsQSRuxY8k/6Wa--