> Is there a command or way to ready the volume id of a cd in the drive? > > I'm building some autoupdate scripts on rw discs and I'd like to > implement in the script a little check to see that the right volume is > in the drive. > > I have a disc called tools and I want to run a script every week that > downloads antivirus dat files and rebuilds my tools cd. The cd is about > 500 megs so far of various stuff I use when I'm out in the field. > > So from cron I'd like it to check if I have the tools cd in the drive. > If it is, on wednesday nights erase the cd. > Then download the new dat files from mcafee and norton. > rebuild the iso image of the directory /root/tools. > burn it to cd. > delete the iso file. > > I have the downloads working and I'm pretty confident I have the > mkisofs command right, I just need to check which cd is in the drive. > > Thanks, > -- > -=/>Thom dd if=$cdromdev bs=1 skip=32808 count=32 | sed -e "s/ *$//" -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
