On 16 May 2007, Menachem Shapiro verbalised: > In an effort to get it down to the minimum needed to get it to work, I > tried this: > SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", > RUN+="home/mshapiro/rockbox_scripts/rockbox_downloader.sh"
You really want it to run for *all* your SCSI devices? > (I also tried this, in case there was a permissions issue with my script: > SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", RUN+="zenity --warning --text 'teeext'") zenity won't get DISPLAY set so probably won't work :) > 'udevtest /sys/block/sdb/' returned the following data (with the data > at the end seeming to indicate that it should run the command when I > plug in the device.). However, plugging in the device did not result > in the script running. Any ideas? (If it helps, I an running ubuntu > 7.04) : > 'disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:7:2.0-scsi-0:0:0:0' > udev_node_mknod: mknod(/dev/.tmp-8-16, 060600, 8, 16) failed: Permission > denied I suppose we shold expect that if you're not running as root :) > main: run: 'socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' > main: run: '/home/mshapiro/rockbox_scripts/rockbox_downloader.sh' Well, it should have run. :) I'd be inclined to recompile udev with DEBUG defined and look for debug-priority syslog messages, myself. (What version of udev is this? udev is evolving fast and there have been a number of bugs in the RUN area, some of which could incorrectly suppress execution.) -- `In the future, company names will be a 32-character hex string.' --- Bruce Schneier on the shortage of company names
