Run script on USB thumb drive connection

[Bill Moseley]

Hotplug, udev, hal, or gnome-volume-manger?


When I plug in a USB drive a Nautilus window opens automatically. 
For a specific usb drive I instead want a script to run (to run
rsync).

I can add a udev rule:

KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTRS{serial}=="SNDK4CC844257C401401", ACTION=="add", \
       SYMLINK+="backup", \
       RUN+="/home/bill/backup.sh"

and that script will run, but it seems to happen before the drive is
mounted.  I thought maybe I needed to work with gnome-volume-manger
but that doesn't seem to be used in Intrepid.

So, I'm a bit confused how the parts fit together.

What I want is to have the drive mounted like it normally is, then run
a script and then umount the drive.  And for a bonus pop-up a window
to DISPLAY 0:0 saying the rsync was complete.

Seems pretty basic.

Anyone done this?

Thanks,



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Bill Moseley
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