[NBLUG/talk] Hotplug for Linux novices

[Troy Arnold]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:27:36PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I'd like to set up a Linux box (Debian/Sarge) so that it automatically
> creates and removes mount points, fstab entries, and desktop shortcuts
> (using KDE) for storage devices as they become available.  Thus, if I
> was to plug in a USB flash drive:

Using autofs, you can fairly easily script pretty much any behaviour
that you want.  There's an autofs fanboy at greenfly.org that has some
helpful stuff online ;-)

The kde media-control applet probably does most of what you want
already, although I'm unsure if that applet is in kde < 3.4

-troy