Back up to disk automatically when disk is inserted

[Polytropon]

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 at 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.


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