reading notifications?

Hello all, I connect to my school's vpn with openconnect (which requires root), then connect to the shares from konqueror (smb://...), which does not. I've tried to automate this a little with a bash script. It first runs tdesu <openconnect_script>, then konqueror smb://... My problem is that I need to run: tdesu <openconnect_script> & Then, I need to wait for that script to succeed before connecting to the shares. I can't use wait{!} because the script does not terminate. My current solution is sleep, which globaly works. I've noticed that if I connect from a konsole I get a notification (new network tun0 found). I wondered if I could read some event linked to that notification to start the konqueror connect script. Any idea? Thierry