Re: [tlug] Crazy automount solution

[dstibbe <dstibbe@example.com>]

dstibbe wrote:

> Josh Glover wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:29:40 +0900, Semi Malinen <semi@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:52:46 -0500, "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>
>>> said:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> On my local LUG (COLUG, the Central Ohio Linux Users Group) mailing
>>>> list, some chap posted about how he could get his USB hard drive to
>>>> automount. I thought several of you on this list might be amused by or
>>>> interested in my solution:
>>>>     
>>>
>>> That is really neat. This might be a silly question,
>>> but how do you umount?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Without making any changes to the script, you would have to run
>> 'umount /dev/foo' and then unplug the drive before the script wakes
>> up.
>>
>> But that is pretty damned stoopid, if you ask me (and I wish someone
>> *had* asked me, because I did not think of that).
>>
>> I would probably add a new variable:
>>
>> INHIBIT_FILE=/tmp/no_automount
>>
>> and then wrap the body of the while loop like so:
>>
>> if [ ! -e ${INHIBIT_FILE} ]; then
>>
>> # foreach loop and the rest of the body of the while loop
>>
>> fi # if (no inhibit file exists)
>>
>> Kinda kludgy, ain't it? Can anybody think of a better way?
>>
>> -Josh "the slightly sheepish" Glover
>>
>>  
>>
> I'm seriously at a loss with what you are trying to explain, do or 
> demonstrate with these 3 lines of code (excluded the comment line)....
>
> David
>
Nm ....  missed the very first post by accident .... 

David