From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Starting with udev
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:33:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3eb2511003110133y3ae10887q7ce488a783ac6318@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100311095534.637ab0a7@tosh-l20.laptop>
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:55, Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse@claws-mail.org> wrote:
> i'm really new with udev and i was following the writing udev rules to
> understand how it works.
>
> What i wanted to do, is to mount and execute a script once a usb device is
> plugged.
> To test this, i found the line:
>
> KERNEL="sd*", ACTION="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/notify-send test test"
>
> I wrote this in a file called 90-test.rules under /etc/udev/rules.d and
> restarted udev plugged the usb device and nothing happened.
Udev runs at the system-level as root, it can not talk to your user
session where the notification would appear. You have to subscribe to
events from your user session, and not put system-wide rules into
udev, to get events in your session.
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 8:55 Starting with udev Salvatore De Paolis
2010-03-11 9:33 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2010-03-12 15:39 ` Salvatore De Paolis
2010-03-12 15:53 ` Kay Sievers
2010-03-12 16:57 ` Salvatore De Paolis
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