How can I programatically eject a live cd?

[Thomas Linton]

I believe that you can't do this because "you" are sitting on this CD.

In general:

# cdcontrol eject

or with port /usr/ports/sysutils/eject just

# eject 



On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:19:39PM -0800, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Sean Bruno composed:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >>Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> writes:
> >>
> >>>I was looking for an answer to this question.  Since my CD is actually
> >>>the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the system
> >>>is running.
> >>>
> >>>So is there a way to do this that y'all have found, or do I have to
> >>>change my CD to run from memory(RAMDISK) instead of running from the CD.
> >>
> >>You want to eject your running root filesystem?
> >>That's a *really* crazy idea.
> >>Why do you want to do that?
> >>
> >Well, I don't "want" to eject my running root filesystem, but I need to
> >have the CD eject on a reboot/halt of the system.
> >
> >So, is there a "nicer" way of doing this?
> >
> 
> There is on "other" Unix type OS's the command "eject" which
> will actually open the CD tray.  I use it all the time in the
> server colo when there is some mislabed machines, I'll make sure
> all the CDROM trays are shut, login to the machine and type
> "eject" and the tray of the mislabed machine will pop open.
> 
> Here is some information that "may or may not" help you in
> finding a *BSD equivalent:
> 
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> 
> [wiliweld at corten8 ~]-> ldd `which eject`
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002c000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> [wiliweld at corten8 ~]-> file `which eject`
> /usr/bin/eject: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
> 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
> 
> [wiliweld at corten8 ~]->
> 
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> 
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