Re: Script hardware event hooks

["John R. Cornell II" <jcornell%chapterzero.com@localhost>]

I found the answer:

http://pikt.org/pikt/samples/dmesg_scan_alarms_macros.cfg.html

J Cornell

On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:29 PM, John Cornell <jcornell%chapterzero.com@localhost>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to trigger a script when a USB drive (with a known name/ 
> banner) is mounted. I'm pretty sure what I'm trying to do has  
> something to do with:
>
> http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?dmesg+8+NetBSD-current
> or
> http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?syslogd+8+NetBSD-current
>
> I could run a cron job every minute that checks the contents of the  
> dmesg buffer to see if the drive has been mounted, but I need  
> instant execution. Any general thoughts or advice on how you might  
> approach this, including maybe kernel options(?) would be greatly  
> appreciated.
>
> J Cornell