Re: sound bell when 'USB disconnect' in syslog

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:11:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a package that will sound the bell when 'USB
> > disconnect' appears in syslog.
> >
> > I can write it myself, but does it already exist?
>
> I'm not aware of any :-?
>
> There is one pretty close to what you need but it only generates visual 
> alerts:
>
> udev-notify
> http://udev-notify.learnfree.eu/
>
> I think you will need something similar, based on udev for monitoring USB 
> events and act accordingly using a set of rules...

Thanks, Camaleón. The beep backage actually has an example of doing it:

tail -f /var/log/xferlog | grep --line-buffered passwd | \
              beep -f 1000 -r 5 -s

I know I had seen it somewhere ;-)

Hugo