Re: [tlug] Crazy automount solution

[dstibbe <dstibbe@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:29:40 +0900, Semi Malinen <semi@example.com> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:52:46 -0500, "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>
>>said:
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>>>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:
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>>That is really neat. This might be a silly question,
>>but how do you umount?
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>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.
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>But that is pretty damned stoopid, if you ask me (and I wish someone
>*had* asked me, because I did not think of that).
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>I would probably add a new variable:
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> INHIBIT_FILE=/tmp/no_automount
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>and then wrap the body of the while loop like so:
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>if [ ! -e ${INHIBIT_FILE} ]; then
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># foreach loop and the rest of the body of the while loop
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>fi # if (no inhibit file exists)
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>Kinda kludgy, ain't it? Can anybody think of a better way?
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>-Josh "the slightly sheepish" Glover
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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