RE: [MLUG] backup via cron

["Nowlin, Dan" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I do get the warning but the command goes ahead and runs with no
problems.  When I try it in a script I get this:

mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - /var/ftp/files :-(
write failed: Input/output error


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:36 AM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> 
> So, when you type
> growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -J -R /var/ftp/files under su, not as a 
> script, you don't get the message:
> WARNING: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
> ?
> 
> 
> 
> Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> > Nope just did a locate and I only have one copy of mkisofs. 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
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> >>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen 
> >>Montgomery-Smith
> >>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:08 AM
> >>To: MLUG Members
> >>Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> >>
> >>My guess is that you have two copies of mkisofs that are different.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Daniel Nowlin wrote:
> >>
> >>>I tried with and without the BASH bang and paths.  I have the job 
> >>>running as root.  It will not even run when I run it with
> >>
> >>./ as root.
> >>
> >>>Here is the error I get:
> >>>
> >>>[EMAIL:PROTECTED bash]# ./files_bkup
> >>>WARNING: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
> >>>| builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'files
> >>>INFO:ingUTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
> >>>       Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
> >>>       use -input-charset to override.
> >>>mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node -
> >>
> >>/var/ftp/files :-(
> >>
> >>>write failed: Input/output error
> >>>
> >>>It ran just fine in the past but my DVD drive bit the dust
> >>
> >>and I think
> >>
> >>>before I got it replaced DVDTools was updated.
> >>>
> >>>Dan
> >>>
> >>>Russell Horn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 05:21 -0600, Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Can anybody tell me why these two commands will work in
> >>
> >>BASH but not
> >>
> >>>>>in a script?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>dvd+rw-format -f /dev/dvd
> >>>>>growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -J -R /var/ftp/files
> >>>>>    
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Are you using the full path to them in your script, and
> >>
> >>are you using
> >>
> >>>>bash as the shell the script is running under?
> >>>>
> >>>>It may be the user the cron job is running as doesn't have these 
> >>>>programs in their path.
> >>>>
> >>>>make sure
> >>>>
> >>>>#!/bin/bash
> >>>>
> >>>>is the first line of your script and try using the full
> >>
> >>path to your
> >>
> >>>>executables.
> >>>>
> >>>>Russell.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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