How to Enable & Disable Devices from command line

[gdc2001]

I have been playing with with nsradmin, enabling and disabling devices.
Does anyone know how to do this direct from the command line?

You would save my life!

 

[sdeb]

... with nsradmin.

You can use a "-f input.txt" option with NSRADMIN,
in this file you just has to put nsradmin commands (such as :". type : NSR Device....".
Just like what you would do on the nsradmin prompt, so, in these commands you'll put the "update" command with the appropriate field value.

Hope this helps.

 

[Chapter11]

Here is an edited version of a rather elaborate script I wrote for some basic device control.

Calling convention:

lc [device] [command] [misc]
device is a 2-char code I associate with a device
/dev/rmt0.1 = i0, /dev/rmt1.1 = i1, and so on
command is a 2/3-char command, I have several, only
implement 2 of them here: on and off
misc is used by some of my other commands

/root/lc
[tt]#!/bin/ksh

# ${1} = device
# ${2} = cmd

QUIT=0

case "${1}" in
"&quot
DEVICE=/dev/rmt0.1
;;

"i0&quot
DEVICE=/dev/rmt0.1
;;

"i1&quot
DEVICE=/dev/rmt1.1
;;

"i2&quot
DEVICE=/dev/rmt2.1
;;

"i3&quot
DEVICE=/dev/rmt3.1
;;
*)
exit
;;
esac

case "${2}" in
"&quot
nsrmm
;;
"on&quot
case ${1} in
"i1"|"i2"|"i3&quot
MEDIA="3590"
;;
*)
echo "lc.on: unknown device"
exit
;;
esac
TMP=/tmp/$$
QUERY="name: \"${DEVICE}\"; media type: \"${MEDIA}\""
rm /tmp/${TMP} 2>/dev/null
echo ". ${QUERY}" >> ${TMP}
echo "update enabled: Yes" >> ${TMP}
nsradmin -i ${TMP} >/dev/null
rm ${TMP} 2>/dev/null
;;

"off&quot
case ${1} in
"i1"|"i2"|"i3&quot
MEDIA="3590"
;;
*)
echo "lc.on: unknown device"
exit
;;
esac
TMP=/tmp/$$
QUERY="name: \"${DEVICE}\"; media type: \"${MEDIA}\""
rm /tmp/${TMP} 2>/dev/null
echo ". ${QUERY}" >> ${TMP}
echo "update enabled: No" >> ${TMP}
nsradmin -i ${TMP} >/dev/null
rm ${TMP} 2>/dev/null
;;
*)
nsrmm
;;
esac