Re: Can only burn coasters now
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Hello list members,
[..]
> This brings me to my question. Does anyone know of a way to get the
> system to notify me of any changes to the DMA status of the drives? On
> looking back in the syslog, I see this entry:
>
> Sep 24 17:38:16 miami vmunix: hdd: DMA disabled
>
> However, I am wondering if anyone knows of something to monitor for
> those sorts of changes and notify the user. Something like a console
> warning for programs that try to access the device, or a pop up window
> if the user is logged in to an X session. I can probably code something
> up, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Would "logcheck" do what you want?
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Chris.
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