Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDA Guide

[John P.Davis]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:54:03 -0800
Alan <alan@×××××.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:45:24AM -0800, Alan wrote:
> > An addition to this would be how to set up a non-usb pilot for the nifty
> > automated devfsd EXECUTE tricks.  I realize that this would be very
> > similiar of course :)  Also, a note on the right way to restart devfsd
> > would be nice.  I tried to kill -HUP it, but no go, and there is no
> > init.d script.  My devfsd.conf had the following added to try to execute
> > the jpilot sync for a palm V (already working with jpilot) on /dev/ttyS0
> >
> > REGISTER       ^tts           PERMISSIONS    0.0   0777
> > REGISTER       ^tts/0         EXECUTE        /bin/su alan -c "/usr/bin/jpilot -sync"
> >
> > I'm not sure what I'm missing here, but having some simple things like
> > that in the docs would help the non-usb palm'ers like me :)
>
> Ok, my mistake, sent off the email a bit too soon :)  But I do now have
> some more sensical comments :) It should be /usr/bin/jpilot-sync, not
> /usr/bin/jpilot -sync
>
> I'm also wondering if it is possible to have this sort of trickery for
> serial devices, as as soon as I run devfsd /dev (after killing it) it
> immediately starts the jpilot-sync program.  I'm wondering if it is a
> USB feature that allows this to be controlled?
>
> Alan the sheepish
>
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So the code that you gave above is for serial devices, but it doesnt quite work yet?

Thanks for the info ;-)

Cheers,
//ZhEN

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John P. Davis
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