Re: Detect floppy diskette

2003-08-26 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:17:35AM -0500 or thereabouts, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, Using bash, how can I silently check to see whether there is a floppy diskette in the drive? When I do: # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt dev/null 21 I still get an error msg on screen. Probably the message is

RE: Detect floppy diskette

2003-08-26 Thread Charles Howse
Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl use POSIX qw/:fcntl_h dup2 setsid/; if (fork) { exit; } setsid; my $fd = POSIX::open /dev/null, O_WRONLY or die Can't open /dev/null: $!\n; dup2 $fd, 0; dup2 $fd, 1; dup2 $fd, 2; sleep 5; system sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; Maybe I'm doing something wrong, all

Re: Detect floppy diskette

2003-08-26 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:19:57PM -0500 or thereabouts, Charles Howse wrote: Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl use POSIX qw/:fcntl_h dup2 setsid/; if (fork) { exit; } setsid; my $fd = POSIX::open /dev/null, O_WRONLY or die Can't open /dev/null: $!\n; dup2 $fd, 0; dup2 $fd, 1; dup2

Re: Detect floppy diskette

2003-08-26 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:00:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Charles Howse wrote: Try this: % perl use POSIX qw/:fcntl_h dup2 setsid/; if (fork) { exit; } setsid; my $fd = POSIX::open /dev/null, O_WRONLY or die Can't open /dev/null: $!\n; dup2 $fd, 0; dup2 $fd, 1; dup2 $fd, 2;