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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:53:20 +0000
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Back up to disk automatically when disk is inserted
Message-ID:  <20200130145320.dbee4bc33ac4d6e7cf73604c@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200130142046.c1dc5c57.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <12be8560-91ac-f800-4ca2-84175227d280@netfence.it> <20200130142046.c1dc5c57.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:20:46 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:10:35 +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> > Failing this, is there some way for my script to check whether the boot 
> > process has already ended?
> 
> You could do the following: Check /var/log/messages and look
> for the _timestamps_ of

<snip>

	Slightly less inelegant, compare the inode change timestamp of the
device entry with the last reboot time.

	In shell ls -lc /dev/whatsit and last reboot will get the data - if
they differ by more than a minute it wasn't there at boot.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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