Thanks Kimmo. String comparison in bourne shell turned out to be somewhat hard for me after all, but the following does indeed work:<br><br>if [ "$(echo $MP | cut -c0-10)" == "/media/usb" ]; then<br> /home/user/autoPicturesImport.sh <br>
fi<br><br>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.<br>
<br>If anybody has any further thoughts on that, I'd still be interested to see them!<br><br>In the mean time, thanks for the advice. I should be on my way now!!<br><br>Best regards,<br>Frederik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/10/9 Kimmo Hämäläinen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kimmo.hamalainen@nokia.com">kimmo.hamalainen@nokia.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 13:17 +0200, ext Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:<br>
> This seems like a good option if it can't be done directly with udev.<br>
> It would be less clean a solution though, as now every usb disk I'd<br>
> insert would get treated the same way.<br>
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> Ideally I'd actually like to do a reverse procedure as well: when I<br>
> plug in a USB harddrive, I'd like the pictures to be backed up on it.<br>
> This seems possible thanks to the flexibility of udev, but a lot<br>
> harder to realise via the approach below.<br>
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</div>I don't know how isn't done with udev, but can't be much simpler... I<br>
mean string comparison is not so hard :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Is this ke-recv daemon being triggered by udev, or is that a separate<br>
> way of working altogether?<br>
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</div>ke-recv uses libhal and the HAL daemon. HAL is based on sysfs and udev<br>
for detecting the HW changes AFAIK.<br>
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