Run script on USB thumb drive connection

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/2/17 Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>:
> 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?
>

I've not tried it, but have the script wait a bit:
sleep 10

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