On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 23:36 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Subject: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.
I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which can power up and down the drives as needed.
I have a systemd automount unit that correctly powers up the dock when accessed, then mounts the drives (thanks Ed).
After an idle time, automount unmounts the drives. A script detects when this happens and powers them down ... *at which point they immediately power up again, and remain up until I intervene manually, even though they are unmounted*.
This never happens if I run the script directly from the command line (i.e. the drives power down and stay down).
> I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas.
The systemd service unit has a Restart=on-failure, or a Restart=always line???
No, nothing like that.
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