Udev refuses to run my scrips [solved]

Question

I've created a udev rule at /etc/udev/rules.d/81-zte.rules with the following:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{product}=="ZTE HSUSB Device", KERNEL=="sd?1", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="zte", GROUP="storage", RUN+="/home/afulm/.scripts/zte.sh"
It works except that it for some reason refuses to run my script. What have I done wrong?
The script is a simple scripts that mounts my device:
#/bin/bash
notify-send 'ZTE Blade mounted.' --icon=dialog-information
sudo mount /mnt/zte
thunar /mnt/zte
Last edited by afulm (2012-09-17 15:59:27)

Answer 1

stewie wrote:
#/bin/bash
notify-send 'ZTE Blade mounted.' --icon=dialog-information
sudo mount /mnt/zte
thunar /mnt/zte
Is this script executable?
It also looks like you might have the first line wrong. I think it should be:
#!/bin/bash
Oops.
lucke wrote:
Those commands are run by root (thus sudo is redundant) and they have no knowledge of your X session.
DISPLAY=:0.0 su yourusername -c "thunar /mnt/zte"
would probably work and for notify-send (which uses dbus) see this topic. You can test those commands by running them as root in a virtual console and observing whether you see the desired effect in your X session.
Thanks it works now.