How I can know when a deamond is activated?

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Mar 19 12:43:30 UTC 2009


Julio Argota wrote:

> How I can know when a deamond is activated?. 

A "daemon", perhaps?

> Example if a USB memory is 
> inserted ubuntu, more specific usbfs deamon, automount the memory and open
> a nautylus windows. How I can performance a task when it happend. I have a
> bash script whit the actions that I to do, but I don't know where to place
> this.

I think you don't care about any daemons - you just want to know when hal
recognizes your system has a new device attached.  

For that you want to see "udev", and /etc/udev/rules.d/.  Create a rule in
rules.d that runs a script when it sees a particular device.
-- 
derek





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