How can I programatically eject a live cd?

Bill Schoolcraft bill at wiliweld.com
Sun Nov 13 04:21:17 GMT 2005


At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Thomas Linton composed:

> I believe that you can't do this because "you" are sitting on this CD.
>
> In general:
>
> # cdcontrol eject
>
> or with port /usr/ports/sysutils/eject just
>
> # eject

Jeez, first off I didn't know this command existed for *BSD and
then read the manpage and saw to my amazement...

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AUTHOR
      Shunsuke Akiyama <akiyama at FreeBSD.org>

HISTORY
      The eject command appeared in FreeBSD 2.X

FreeBSD 5.4                      Sep 24, 2000

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