[wellylug] execute a program when a device is created in /dev?

Victor Kemp victorkemp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 17:00:32 NZST 2005


rocking! udev's .rules files do it perfect. Cheers.

On 8/3/05, David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Victor Kemp wrote:
> > Hey. Anyone got an idea? I've done this using devfsd but would like a
> > solution that's less invasive than converting to devfs.
> 
> udev and hotplug are designed to handle this - however it depends what you
> mean by "when ... created", since udev usually creates the device nodes
> itself.
> 
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