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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