[plug] script

[John Summerfield]

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Shackleton, Kevin wrote:

> I have just written this script
> 
> umount /mnt/cdrom
> eject
> echo Change CD, press Enter to continue . .
> read
> mount /mnt/cdrom
> 
> After discovering I had to chmod it to make it executable, I was able to
> run it.
:-)
> However it does not echo the prompt.  Why is that?  Does this
> script not take over the console while it runs?
 
 This works here:
[summer at possum summer]$ cat bin/test
#!/bin/sh -x
echo Change CD, press Enter to continue . .
read
echo ta

[summer at possum summer]$ bin/test
+ echo Change CD, press Enter to continue . .
Change CD, press Enter to continue . .
+ read

+ echo ta
ta
[summer at possum summer]$ 


However, in this particular case, why not use autfs? Devices mounted 
with autofs are automatically unmounted if not used for a while, mounted on
demand. See this example:
[summer at possum summer]$ ls /os2
total 1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Oct  3 19:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root     root         1024 Sep 24 22:46 ..
[summer at possum summer]$ ls /os2/c | head
total 6274
drwxr-xr-x  66 root     root         8192 Apr  3  1998 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 Oct  3 19:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         2048 Apr  3  1998 acrobat3
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        34092 Dec 16  1994 aic7870.add
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        43008 Apr  3  1998 archive
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          143 Feb 10  1998 autoexec.000
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          265 Aug 25 03:14 autoexec.bat
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           36 Apr  1  1998 b.cmd
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Apr 29 01:04 books
Broken pipe
[summer at possum summer]$ ls /os2
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 Oct  3 19:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root     root         1024 Sep 24 22:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x  66 root     root         8192 Apr  3  1998 c
[summer at possum summer]$ 


Cheers
John Summerfield
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