USB stick and "autoplay"

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Samstag, den 20.11.2004, 22:47 +0100 schrieb Hubertus Hiden:
> I'd like to be able to start a script on a headless machine after 
> plugging in a USB stick.
> Is that possible ? Does anybody know how ?
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated
you could write a script that wraps around lshal --monitor and waits
for the device to appear by any kind of pattern matching....
also hal-get-property is worth a look.

the values to check for are determined easily with your device manager.

:)

ciao
	oli
 
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