Run script on thumb drive insertion?

[Neil Cherry]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to run a script automatically when a thumb drive is
>> inserted. Is there such a program? If not I think I can stat
>> the mount point and on change run a script. I have the basic
>> C structure from a biff program I wrote a long time ago.
>>
> It's a while since I've done this but I'd look at "udev" and its "rules.d"
> directory.  Create a rule that recognizes the device, and use the PROGRAM=
> parameter to tell it to run a program.

Thanks! I'll check that out!

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