Starting and stopping udiskie in daemon mode

It seems that to start udiskie in daemon mode, you just need to use the command

 udiskie &

But this isn’t completely clear from the documentation. However, there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop the daemon other than manually killing it.

The standardized start/stop interface, i.e.

 /etc/init.d/udiskie start | stop

might make sense. Additionally, it’s possible to start multiple versions of udiskie, though it doesn’t make sense to do so.

                                                                                       Regards, Faheem Mitha

[mb720]

For anyone interested in starting udiskie automatically on login using systemd:

1. Create a file ~/.config/systemd/user/udiskie.service with this content:

      [Unit]
      Description=udiskie mounts drives when plugged in
   
      [Service]
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/udiskie --no-notify
   
      [Install]
      WantedBy=default.target
   

2. Make the service execute on each login: systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl --user enable udiskie

3. Reboot and check if udiskie was started with pgrep udiskie

[fmitha]

Ok, Thomas. No problem. It was just a suggestion.

I don’t know if I will come up with a init script or not, but if I do, I’ll open an issue and/or a pull request for it. Should this issue be closed?

Regards, Faheem Mitha