Author: Stuart Sears Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian auto-mount scripting?
On 11:58 Mon 01 Feb , Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello folks
>
> What's the up-to-date way to run a script when a USB hard-drive is
> plugged in to a server running Debian 5.0 and a 2.6.26 kernel?
>
> Autofs/automount? udev? The technology seems to keep changing, and I
> don't know what's fashionable this year.
>
> At the moment I've got autofs mounting the drive when it's plugged in,
> but I'd also like to trigger the backup script.
>
> And this is for a server, so there's no desktop magic happening.
I'd be tempted to use udev for that, with the RUN+= key kicking off a backup script.
