Ivman

Ivman is a generic handler for HAL events. Originally for automounting, it can now be used to run arbitrary commands when events or conditions occur or properties are modified on your hardware (e.g., run a command when you close your laptop's lid, run a command when a particular device is attached or a particular CD is inserted, etc).

Info

Latest stable Ivman: ivman-0.6.14 (5 February 2007)
Each release of Ivman generally means that previous versions are no longer supported, so please use the above version unless you have a really good reason not to.

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Ivman is currently developed by ?????. It was earlier developed by Rohan and originally developed by Ikke. Anyone is welcome to submit patches or become the new maintainer; just e-mail Rohan.

See Ivman's Sourceforge Project Page for Sourceforge features (bug tracker, past file releases etc).

News

5 February 2007: Ivman 0.6.14 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Enhanced DBUS/HAL integration. Ivman now tries to reconnect to DBUS/HAL if the connection has been lost

2 December 2006: Ivman 0.6.13 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Fixed DBus assertion warnings/errors. Thanks go to Matthias Koenig.

21 April 2006: Ivman 0.6.12 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Fixed a bug introduced in Ivman 0.6.11 which could cause a long delay when starting Ivman.

18 April 2006: Ivman 0.6.11 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Fixed automounting for HAL 0.5.7 or greater.
• Added option to process all rules in IvmConfigActions.xml when Ivman starts. This allows automounting to take place of devices already attached to the system when Ivman is started.

5 March 2006: Ivman 0.6.10 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Now dual-licensed under the GPL-2 and QPL.

11 February 2006: Ivman 0.6.9 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Respect HAL storage.automount_enabled_hint property
• Respect HAL device locks
• Include small 'ivman-launch' script, thanks to Daniele Favara, to manage a per-session instance of Ivman

8 January 2006: Ivman 0.6.8 released. Changes since last ivman:

• Fix bug: some devices (esp. CD/DVD drives) mount at /media/NULL
• Fix bug: config rules matching on mount point would sometimes not work
• Fix a few minor memory leaks

15 December 2005: Ivman 0.6.7 released. Changes since last ivman:

• many code cleanups. Any Debian users who had a problem with 0.6.6, please try 0.6.7.
• new feature: commandline option to override location of config files

22 November 2005: Ivman 0.6.6 released. Changes since last ivman:

• fix bug: devices or mount points containing spaces in their path cause mount to fail
• other minor fixes

21 November 2005: website retouching.

7 November 2005: Ivman 0.6.5 was released. Changes since the last release of Ivman include:

• use GNU gettext for translation. No translations exist yet, but you are welcome to send any in :-)
• fix bug causing CheckOnInit option in IvmConfigProperties.xml to not work
• allow mount/umount commands to be configured (i.e. working without pmount is now supported)
• better pmount/mount detection (should now work with pmount-hal, pmount, or vanilla mount)
• it is now possible to disable the 'sleeping' of system-wide Ivman before each mount, as some people don't like this behaviour