> I'm curious if anyone knows of a `nicer' way to do this. I've heard that > ACPI (a successor of sorts to APM) should allow for this, but from what > I've heard, ACPI is fairly unsupported in Linux these days.. It'd be cool > if it was automatic Someday this will be supported by the linux hotplug scripts: http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/ I just apt-got the hotplug RPM and my redhat box started hotplugging USB drivers. Yay, no more manual modprobing or having drivers constantly loaded from rc.local. Now to write a script to detect when I've plugged my USB digicam in, automatically unload all the pictures, and upload them to the webserver...