control headless box with key presses


Hi. I have a "headless" Linux box (i.e. without a monitor and a
keyboard) which is working fine. Now I would like to be able to hook
up a USB numpad and be able to execute some scripts by pressing some
keys, e.g. pressing key "1" would execute "Script_1" and so on.

Hooking up the USB numpad and loading the appropriate USB kernel
modules should be no problem, but how do I do that pressing a key
executes a command? "Usually" a tty driver would control the keyboard,
but I don't even want to log in, I just want to plug the keyboard in,
press a key and a command gets executed.

Thank you for any ideas.

-- Manuel Panea

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