On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Rishi Agrawal<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I was planning to write a program which will update a folder in my pen drive > whenever I insert one. > > The algo goes like this: > > --> I insert a pendrive > --> The program comes to know that a pen drive has been inserted > --> Program asks the user "do you want to use this pendrive as a backup > tool" > --> If I enter "yes" it asks the paths of the folders i want to make backup > for > --> it updates the pendrive > --> Next time whenever I insert the pendrive the program asks "this pendrive > has been used for creating backups, do you want to synchronize your folders > now" > > > Basically the problem is to find that a pen drive has been inserted in on of > the ports ?? rest things can be taken care off by a daemon process sleeping > on the event "a pendrive has been inserted". > > Any clues how to find this out ?? > > > Or any tool which does something similar ? > -- > Regards, > Rishi B. Agrawal
Rishi, hald is one option. KDE and gnome both use it for triggering their file browsers to open upon thumb drive insertion. I don't know if basic init 3 level systems have hald running or not. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
