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I often mount a remote drive using sshfs. I would love to have this mount automatically. However, if I mount it in my .bashrc or startup scripts, the mount often fails because my wireless internet connection has not yet been made.

Does anybody know of an easy way to execute a bash scrip every time the connection is made, or to auto-mount an sshfs drive?

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Add your script to /etc/network/if-up.d/

Also after adding script run chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/yourscriptname to give neccessary permission

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inside scripts in /etc/network/*.d/ you can use the variable $IFACE to know which interface is getting a connection so you can skip the procedure if it is the wired connection for example. – Carlos Campderrós Feb 20 at 9:22
Is there a way to specify which specific network you want to do this for? when it's my home network I want to do the script but when I'ts a network out and about I might not want to... – Joshua Robison Apr 28 at 9:21
this actually doesn't seem to work at all. I know my scripts work because I can run them using ./ in the terminal and they work but when I toggle off and on the connection, the scripts are not called at all. Is there anything that I have to do to reference them in someway? dropping a script in if-up.d seems to be lacking a step?!?! – Joshua Robison Apr 28 at 10:30
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Ubuntu 12.04

  • Install Cuttlefish Install Cuttlefish : A simple tool, which realises reflexes on your computer by executing actions when specific events are triggered.
  • Open Cuttlefish and click on New.

Step-1

  • Give it a name, and change Activated by stimulus option to ON.
  • Click on Stimulus, select the category Network and type Connect to WLAN. Click OK.

Step 2

  • You can also select the SSID of wireless network and you have an option of whether or not to check this on startup.

Step 3

  • Now you will have to specify a reaction. Go to Reaction tab, and click add. Select Applications from the category and Start Application(in advanced mode) from type.

Step 4

  • Now specify the script which you want to run in executable option. You can even pass parameters to the script.

Step-5

  • And that's it! Also make sure that you add Cuttlefish in startup applications. Go to Edit > Preferences and enable the autostart option.

Step-6

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