Re: Being notified about CD/DVD media

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

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