notification on cd insert/eject

Hiper · 11-06-2004, 06:20 PM

Hi
I am looking for some sort of daemon that does "something" when a cd is inserted.
If it could also do "something" when the eject button on the drive is pressed that would be nice too

It has got to be something simple, CLI only and very little dependencies if possible!

Or maybe someone can tell me how can i do this from a shell script or a simple C program?

Thanks in advance

battousai9439 · 11-06-2004, 07:43 PM

um...

WHY would you want this?

homey · 11-06-2004, 08:54 PM

cdrecord has an option called --inq which inquires about the status of your cdrom drive.
David Stark ( I think ) had a cd multiburn script posted here a while back and it had a section which used that feature. Basically, it went something like this ....

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
      STATUS=`cdrecord -V --inq dev=0,0,0 2>&1`
      echo $STATUS | grep "medium not present" &> /dev/null
      if [ $? != 0 ]
	  then
	  echo "The cd is loaded "
else
echo -e " \a The cd is not loaded"
fi

foo_bar_foo · 11-06-2004, 09:13 PM

yea even using c the interface is limited
to the same basic look see status like the script someone posted
and there is no interface to the button thingy

jon_k · 11-06-2004, 09:28 PM

Going to have to be creative on this one.

Perhaps:

ls /mnt/cdrom

if output is blank (no files) then no CD is loaded (either that, or a blank CD)

if it returns output with any characters except spaces or returns... there's somethin' in there, report cdrom as loaded!

Do something like that ;-)