GNOME 2.12 do this for you, if you put yourself in the plugdev group. It just works.
Canek On 2/5/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:09:43 -0500, James Colby wrote: > > > I was wondering if anybody knew of a package or a method that I could > > use to detect when a USB mass storage device is attached to my PC. > > What I would like to be able to do is to write a small script that > > would mount my USB mass storage device, sync up a directory, and then > > unmount the device everytime I plug my USB drive into the computer. > > Udev will take care of this. all you need is a udev rule that matches the > particular device and calls a script that carries out the actions you > want. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for plenty on writing > udev rules. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Newsflash! Explosion at M$ beta testsite - Infinite number of monkeys > killed. > > > -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
