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Subject: Re: usb monitoring
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:17 pm, Alex Teslik wrote:
>      I'm looking for a program or daemon that will watch my USB ports and
> launch a specific script when specific devices are attached. Any pointers
> to where I could find such a beast much appreciated...

You want to do two things, usbd_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf file, and 
you want to look in the file /etc/usbd.conf which has examples of how to do 
this.

 - Jacob

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