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 1S8Yj3-0006lE-A8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:05:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67317E0D1D for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10727E0C57 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.138] (helo=smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8YNz-0005xI-6I for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:07 +0100 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8YNy-0004mQ-Sx for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:07 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B122BC9 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VvnG7w155Lmc for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.23]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F84E19E7 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:52 +0100 (CET) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-( Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:03 +0100 Message-ID: <8225478.pI6nOTGxz4@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.4 (Linux/3.2.1-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120316084605.4c76a623@digimed.co.uk> References: <20120312092432.GA2959@acm.acm> <2447631.Yi3LRrrIq7@eve> <20120316084605.4c76a623@digimed.co.uk> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 192eea10-1283-49c4-b905-886d93e28353 X-Archives-Hash: 714907ceaa833d970218d1121551aa33 On Friday, March 16, 2012 08:46:05 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:13:46 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > Auto-starting programs when a device is added. Great, when are we > > getting "autostart" support for CDs and USB-keys and under which > > user-account will these be executed? > > This is for running programs from the computer against the device, not > autorunning programs on the device - such as initialising USB modems. How long till autorunning programs becomes "the next great thing" on the desktop for Linux? > > 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?) > > That's already been done, > > * 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 This is an automounter, not autounmounter... 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... The action that (used to) cause BSODs on MS Windows... > 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). Why not connect that TV? ;) -- Joost