I have inherited a script which is triggered by the notification "tape
mount request 1" to do a failover in case the tape is full.

In order to find out whether this is a request for a writeable tape, the
script uses ps -ef  and pipes the output through a series of grep
statements.

This seems not to be working particularly well since the script kicks in
when I recover files and the tape which contain the files is not present.

Any suggestions for how I can detect a tape request for either a save or
read? There is no jukebox, just a single drive.

greetings,

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