[Scottish] button

[Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant]

Lawrence,

i've known that command for a couple of years, or i would be in trouble :-)
No, just curious, without any pressing need - actually i was trying to talk
someone into using Linux, but this button matter rather turned him off
(you've got to actually open a terminal and type something, instead of just
pressing the button)


> ----------
> From: 	Lawrence Sweeney[SMTP:thinker@dsl.pipex.com]
> Reply To: 	scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sent: 	13 June 2003 17:05
> To: 	scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: 	Re: [Scottish] button
> 
> On 2003.06.13 16:34 "Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant" wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > on my home system, when linux is booted, when i press the button on
> > either
> > of my CD/DVD drives, it doesn't react (doesn't open, anyway).
> > I wondered if a tweak was possible so that the button
> > 1. unmounts the filesystem, whatever it may be
> > 2. opens the wee drawer
> > maybe one of you has done it ?
> 
> Hi Elise,
> 
> have you tried using the  'eject' command.
> 
> If you have only 1 cd drive just typing
> 
> eject
> 
> should work. To get to my second cd/dvd drive, I use
> 
> eject /mnt/cdrom1
> 
> cheers
> 
> Lawrence
> 
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