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

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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