[vox-tech] /etc/devfsd.conf equivalent for udev?

[Jonathan Stickel]

Ken Bloom wrote:
> 
> On 2004.04.19 08:51, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>> I've just started using udev since devfs is supposedly deprecated in 
>> 2.6  kernels.  It all seems to work OK, at least for my setup.
>>
>> I since my handspring PDA through /dev/pilot, which now links to /dev/ 
>> tts/USB1.  With devfs I added some lines to /etc/devfsd.conf which  
>> automatically ran my syncing program when I pushed the cradle button:
>>
>> #configure USB, specifically so that jpilot syncs when Visor cradle  
>> button is pushed; JJS 12 Feb 04
>> REGISTER        ^usb            PERMISSIONS     0.0     0777
>> REGISTER        ^usb/tts        PERMISSIONS     0.0     0777
>> REGISTER        ^usb/tts/1      EXECUTE       /bin/su jjstickel -c 
>> "/usr/ bin/jpilot-sync"
>>
>> I can't seem to find an equivalent file for udev.  There exists /etc/ 
>> udev/udev.conf, udev.permissions, and udev.rules, but the contents 
>> are  very different from devfsd.conf.  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> in /etc/udev.conf, there should be a configuration entry telling you 
> which  is the rules file. if it's a directory, then any file named 
> *.rules in that  directory will be read as a rules file (so it would be 
> a good idea in that  case to create something like /etc/udev/local.rules 
> and add your own rules  there)
> 
> You will probably want something like KERNEL="ttyUSB1", 
> PROGRAM="/bin/su  jjstickel -c \"/usr/bin/jpilot-sync\""
> 
> but I don't know for sure that the system would wait to run this rule 
> until  after it had created the device file. You might consider instead 
> running  jpilot-sync as a daemon with the -l option to keep it in a loop.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion, but it's not working.  Not a big deal; most 
any time I sync, I open up jpilot anyway, and I can sync from there.  I 
just thought it was cool I could make it sync automatically with devfs.

Jonathan