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Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:29:09AM +0200, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: 
>> I think an eject option for amflush would be a very useful thing,
>> because one cant do somethin like
>> amdump; mt -f /dev/nst0 offline
>> because amflush does some asking an then exits. An I don't like to
>> wait for the tape to be rewinded and then ejected. How do you think
>> about it? 
> I suppose you mean by the last line that you don't like to
> physically sit there waiting.
> As a workaround I think a little shell script would work.
>   scan the ps command output for the amflush program
>   extract the process id number (PID)
> (solaris has a 'pgrep amflush' command for these steps)
>   use wait PID to let the script pause til amflush completes
>   maybe put in a sleep for some extra time if needed
>   issue your mt offline command (maybe an mt rewind first?)
> You could run this in the background after the amflush returns
> control to your terminal.  And if you do it as "nohup <your script>
> &" you can log off.
Thanks for you information. I will try to write somethin like that, but
I would still be more happy, if there was a switch to amflush... *g*


Cheers
Nicki

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