More About the Detect Utility

Install Option: Overview

For all platforms listed in the introduction to this topic, you can use detect -i or detect --install, to install the media changer device file. This is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 35: Manual Tape Library Installation.

Debug Option

The Detect utility also has a debug option, -d.

For all platforms listed in the introduction to this chapter, there are three debug levels: 1, 2, and 3, with level 3 being the most comprehensive. For example, you can run:

detect -d 3 -q

detect -f

The Detect utility -f N options (where N is 1, 2, 3, or 4) allow you to bypass some operations of detect -q.

• detect -f 1 processes only media changer devices.

• detect -f 2 processes only sequential access devices (tape drives).

• detect -f 3 processes media changer and sequential access devices.

• detect -f 4 processes only devices that are not changers or tape drives.