On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:42 +0200, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > Greetings, > I am attempting to find how to get notified about CD/DVD media > availability in non-desktop circumstances, e.g. an operator walks to a > server and inserts a blank DVD which then becomes a candidate for backups. > > My guess is that I should look at either HAL or D-BUS, but I would like > to hear about the pros and cons of each solution: as far as I know, HAL > feeds D-BUS but the latter is mainly intended for desktop applications, > so in my use case might not even be there. I could poll the device once > a minute, but I would hate to do so. HAL will tell you this; just try running 'lshal --monitor' or hal-device-manager and look at the output. More info here http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal Good luck, David
