I am writing a simple script that mounts a disk and checks to see if it did it right.

So far I have this:

my $device = "/dev/cdrom";
my $dir = "/mnt/cdrom";
my $testfile = "";
print `mount $device $dir`;
if ($?) {
        if ( -f "$dir/$testfile" ) {
                print "mounted."
        } else {
                print "There was an error in mounting $device at $dir.
+\n"
        }
} else { print "mounted\n" }

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This works, but I would like more info about the error. I thought that doing something like this:

$output = `mount $device $dir`;

would get me what's being displayed to the screen (eg. "..mounted read only..", "only root can do that", etc.), but alas I was mistaken.

Anyone know of a good way to do that?

thanks.

melguin.

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