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Subject: firewire pseudo-hotplug
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Hello,

Is there any way to make a shell script execute immediately after a firewire
device is plugged in? The man pages and mailing list archives didn't even get
me close to a hint of whether this is possible or not.

Failing that, is there a (good) way to tell from the command line whether a
particular device (say, a hard disk) happens to be plugged in or not?

Thanks in advance for your time.
-- 
Charles Ulrich
System Administrator
Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com