Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:50:37 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Back up to disk automatically when disk is inserted Message-ID: <20200131195037.3c789345.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5f17ee88-87d1-702f-dd34-3cf8d38a6494@netfence.it> References: <12be8560-91ac-f800-4ca2-84175227d280@netfence.it> <20200130142046.c1dc5c57.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200130145320.dbee4bc33ac4d6e7cf73604c@sohara.org> <5f17ee88-87d1-702f-dd34-3cf8d38a6494@netfence.it>
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:36:19 +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 2020-01-30 15:53, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > 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. > > > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > > > Is there no way to check whether the "login:" prompt is ready? > Would "ps ax|grep getty" work? Yes, for virtual terminal logins this should work. If you want to know if a user has been logged in, parsing output of "who" or "w" or checking ps output for login shells would be the next step. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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