[maemo-users] N810 - executing script when digital camera is plugged in and mounted

[From: Frederik Vanrenterghem]

Thanks Kimmo. String comparison in bourne shell turned out to be somewhat
hard for me after all, but the following does indeed work:

if [ "$(echo $MP | cut -c0-10)" == "/media/usb" ]; then
  /home/user/autoPicturesImport.sh
fi

This is still rather crude though, as it doesn't check at all which brand of
camera has been mounted (if it's even a camera). That's something which udev
supports rather trivially, which is why I was hoping to work that route.

If anybody has any further thoughts on that, I'd still be interested to see
them!

In the mean time, thanks for the advice. I should be on my way now!!

Best regards,
Frederik

2009/10/9 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>

> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 13:17 +0200, ext Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> > This seems like a good option if it can't be done directly with udev.
> > It would be less clean a solution though, as now every usb disk I'd
> > insert would get treated the same way.
> >
> > Ideally I'd actually like to do a reverse procedure as well: when I
> > plug in a USB harddrive, I'd like the pictures to be backed up on it.
> > This seems possible thanks to the flexibility of udev, but a lot
> > harder to realise via the approach below.
>
> I don't know how isn't done with udev, but can't be much simpler... I
> mean string comparison is not so hard :)
>
> > Is this ke-recv daemon being triggered by udev, or is that a separate
> > way of working altogether?
>
> ke-recv uses libhal and the HAL daemon. HAL is based on sysfs and udev
> for detecting the HW changes AFAIK.
>
> -Kimmo
>
>
>
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