Custom responses to HAL events

[Boyan Tabakov]

On 16.11.2006 01:10, Paul Worrall wrote:
> Thanks Boyan... that got me thinking.  The solution I have come up with is
> to use a udev rule.  When I plug in my PDA, a network interface called usb0
> is created for it, so I created a file /etc/udev/rules.d/85-PDA.rules
> containing:
>
>     KERNEL=="usb0", RUN+="/home/paul/bin/PDA"
>
> and a /home/paul/bin/PDA script containing:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> case "$ACTION" in
>     "add")
>     cp /home/paul/PDA.desktop /home/paul/Desktop
>     ;;
>     "remove")
>     rm -f /home/paul/Desktop/PDA.desktop
>     ;;
> esac
>
> This needs a bit of polishing, but it seems to do what I wanted.
>
> Thanks again

Great! Your idea is even better! I just forgot what you can do with udev 
rules:) Good luck...

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