Hardware Profile 'Daemon'

Question

Hai everybody. I am a laptop user and at home i have a docking station. So i switch hardware often. Ive written a lillte deamon that detect wheter i am using a dockingstation or not. Depending the configuration it copies the configuration files. When stopping the daemon (actually it isn't really a daemon....) it writes back any changes you made in de configfile you are using.
#!/bin/bash
# source application-specific settings
# general config
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Loading Hardware Profile"
if [ -r /dev/hdc ]; then
#Load Docking Configuration
cp /etc/X11/xorg.crt /etc/X11/xorg.conf
else
#Load Non-Dock Configuration
cp /etc/X11/xorg.lcd /etc/X11/xorg.conf
fi
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
stat_done
fi
stop)
stat_busy "Saving Hardware Profile"
if [ -r /dev/hdc ]; then
#Writing back possible changed configuration
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.crt
else
#Writing back possible changed configuration
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.lcd
fi
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
stat_done
fi
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
This code is quite simple actually it could be much more advanced but i have no expience in linux programming.
My laptop has no cd-drive, but the dockingstation has. so this line of code
if [ -r /dev/hdc ]; then
checks if there is a cd drive.

Answer 1

phrakture wrote:
atze wrote:thnx. Concerning the hwd -X thingy. I need some special configuration for my xorg.conf (en option for my videocard (Option "CrtOnly" "true") so hwd -X aint working. The wiki in a good idea, but i think it should be a bit more advanced. Maybe i should write something like the new network profile stuff.
Well, yeah hwd won't work for everyone, however it will work fine for some (my crt/lcd switch is pure hardware, so i need no special config to get it working) - and you can only have it run if the file doesn't exist.  It was just a random idea.
well the hwd -X thing aint a bad idea, maybe it takes to much time. Actually this script should include more like (network/usb-drivers) mount point. It would maybe be even better if it would run before the bootsequence enters an runlevel so you can configure your rc.local to your current hardware profile.