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Subject: Re: Running a script after a device's been plugged
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Samuel Mart=EDn Moro <faust64@gmail.com> writes:

> 3) Last but not least, how to link a device once it's plugged in, and unl=
ink
> it once it's unplugged?
> We're still providing 5.4 and 6.2 releases based versions. And I do not l=
ike
> hal.
> So I thought I could use /etc/devd.conf, with attach/detach directives, a=
nd
> their actions calling a script that would create/delete the links.
> Is there a cleaner way to do it? Would it be still usable in 8.x? (9.x?)

That's exactly what devd is for.  Go ahead and use it.