That would seem to repeatedly call rsync as long as the folder is there. Probably not what you wanted. Anyone have a better way? :) <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Jackson Cooper <<a href="mailto:mail@jacksonc.com">mail@jacksonc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Sebastian, The way I'd do it is create a daemon with an infinite loop (I don't know much about udev though) that looks for the folder /media/nameofusbdongle, and if it exists execute the rsync line, then an umount line. Something like... <CODE> while true; do    if [[ -d /media/nameofdongle ]]; then        rsync -switches /media/nameofdongle /some/other/path        umount -switches /media/nameofdongle    else        sleep 1    fi done </CODE> Then to make it a daemon, you could use the start-stop-daemon program. Type "man start-stop-daemon" in the terminal to find out more. - Jackson <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Sebastian Spiess <<a href="mailto:sebastian.spiess@gmail.com">sebastian.spiess@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > hi all, >  I want to sync some of my USB dongle folders when I plug it in. I think I worked that out: create a rule >  /etc/udev/rules.d/85-usbstick.rules and call the script to sync. > >  But how about when I want to unplug the thing? Then there is no usb/hotplug event. Would the simplest thing be a script >  with unmount/eject at the end? >  How could I call this script through the icon (unmount menu) on the desktop? >  How to make the eject/unmount wait until rsync is done? > >  by the way what's the difference between unmount and eject? > >  thanks Sebastian > >  -- >  ubuntu-au mailing list >  <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >  <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> > -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- <a href="http://www.kiva.org/lender/frode">http://www.kiva.org/lender/frode</a>