On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:51:07AM +0700, Olivier Nicole enlightened us: > How to tell amverify to stop if there is no tape in the tape drive? > > Every night I have a cron that does amdump then amverify. > > If I forgot to put a tape in the drive, the dumps go to the holding > disk and amdump ends nicely. > > But amverify will continue running until I insert a tape next morning. > > And when I want to flush my holding disk, i find out that amverify is > verifying the tape I just inserted and it messes up everything. > > So it would be nice that amverify could be told to abort if there is > no tape in the drive. > > Is there a way to do so? >
I would just script it: mt -f /dev/tape status | grep ONLINE > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then amverify fi Flavor to taste. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
