On 6/26/06, rwh <rwh at visi.com> wrote: > I have a set of external USB disks that contain encrypted partitions and > I'm trying to set up a service script to mount those disks with the > appropriate passwords in a way that will be reasonably robust across > reboots, etc. > > I've gotten to the point where I could parse the information in > /proc/scsi/scsi to map the scsi device to the device assignment, grep > through the system log to find the device that was assigned, and use > that to grab the appropriate password and mount point for the volume. > > I'm wondering if I'm missing something and where there is a table > somewhere in /proc, or an existing utility that can dump this information? > This sounds like a good case for using udev on newer kernels. At the very least, take a look at /sys on 2.6.x kernels, there is a bunch of new stuff in there for looking at devices plugged into your system. -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/