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[ILUG] Run script when USB disk connected

[ILUG] Run script when USB disk connected

Stephen Reilly leydar at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 21:32:34 GMT 2009


Hey Kenn,

> Whats the right magic udev/hal/whatever incantation needed
> to get a script to run when an external USB hard disk is
> plugged in?

    I haven't used it myself but I stumbled on this
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Which has a couple
of sections mentioning such things as:

KERNEL=="sdb", RUN+="/usr/bin/my_program"

Might be just the thing.

Stephen



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