script to check if a drive is mounted

gazman1 · 07-10-2006, 07:34 AM

I'm looking for a simple c script that will check if a drive called backup is mounted if its not do nothing and if it is send an email and dismount it. The sending email bit is easy I will using net::smtp but the rest??

acid_kewpie · 07-10-2006, 08:18 AM

net::smtp is a perl module. how do you expect to use it in a c program?? there is nothing difficult at all, just use bash using the mount command and grep the output. then pipe it into the mail command. this sounds like a fairly poor solution to a simpel problem though... maybe you'd benefit from exploiting automount instead.

gazman1 · 07-10-2006, 08:25 AM

sorry i ment to say perl rather than c, its simply going 2 b run wit a crontab becuase from time to time the sparse image dosent unmount after the backup is complete and this causes trouble during the next backup.

uteck · 07-10-2006, 09:09 AM

This site might help, http://ccomb.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?...StorageEnglish
In step 2 is a link for a Perl version.