Re: usb hotplug and hooking

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon Mar 02 2009 - 09:08:37 EST


Am Montag 02 März 2009 14:39:41 schrieb Oguz Yarimtepe:
> Hi,
>
> I want to run an application when an external usb flash disk is plugged to
> my box machine that has STLinux installed in it. My aim is to check some
> issues on usb disk, whether it has an official software or not. I am not
> sure how will i hook my own application that will check usb device
> when it is plugged. I don't want the application run at the
> background, but run only when a plug is occured.

Have you looked at writing a udev script? Do you need a GUI?

Regards
Oliver

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