Local or remote CD tray ejection, for Linux.
cupholder
can be useful:
- If you have a large server room with many computers with CD trays, this can be used for finding a specific server.
- If you need an example for how to call
ioctls
from Go without using C (https://github.com/xyproto/cdrom/blob/main/cd.go).
cupholder
Or when building a project that takes a while, as a notification utility:
<build command>; cupholder
For specifying a specific device:
cupholder /dev/cdrom
All arguments are treated as device filenames.
Use -s
for silent operation and set the NO_COLOR
environment variable to disable colors.
cupholder
includes a web server that can be launched with the -l
or --listen
flag, that lets you eject the CD remotely, just by visiting the HTTP page at port 3280 (3280 = 0x0CD0
).
For ejecting the tray using curl
, a command like this can then be used:
curl --silent --output /dev/null --write-out '%{http_code}\n' http://localhost:3280/
Replace localhost
with the hostname or IP address of the server where cupholder -l
is running.
- Go 1.18 or later
- Version: 1.2.1
- License: GPL2
- Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>