I've got a couple of remote servers in a school, and I'd like to set them up so that, as soon as someone (probably a teacher) plugs in an external hard disk, it will be mounted and the backup started.
What's the best way to do this?
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What OS are the servers running? – dunxd Feb 11 '10 at 14:55
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Gentoo and Debian. Not sure off the top of my head which kernel version. – David Wolever Feb 11 '10 at 21:21
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The accepted answer to this question is more detailed: http://serverfault.com/questions/74593/linux-ubuntu-run-script-upon-usb-mount – Redsandro Jan 03 '13 at 13:49
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Couple ways of doing this:
- Modify your udev rules so that whenever a certain device is inserted, a script is run. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#external-run for an example.
- Write a daemon that listens on dbus for device insertion messages and handles the event. (this is more work)
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You know of any resource that covers having the script handled by the session of a certain user so that you can use GUI commands like in [this question](http://superuser.com/questions/582723/can-udev-somehow-trigger-zenity-for-a-logged-in-user-in-a-session)? – Redsandro Apr 16 '13 at 10:02