Re: Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:41:13AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > MSG=$(sudo mount ... 2>&1) > if [ $? -ne 0 -a $MSG == "Device not configured" ]; then > echo "My custom error message" > fi Thanks. The one thing I never thought to try was putting '2>&1' *inside* the parenthes

Re: Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-21 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 02:17:13 -0500: > Following the suggestions that were posted, I now have a working > script that checks for a connection to the DVD-RAM drive. The > following works, but returns the 'Device not configured' error > if there's no disk in the drive. > > eli

Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread Bob Hall
Following the suggestions that were posted, I now have a working script that checks for a connection to the DVD-RAM drive. The following works, but returns the 'Device not configured' error if there's no disk in the drive. elif !(sudo mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/cd0a $montering_punkt)