RE: [MLUG] backup via cron

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

It flies by too fast.  I do get the warning and then a 5 second time to
cancel the command, then it sets up the files to copy, then it
copies/burns the files, flushes cache, finally writes lead-out.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:44 AM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> 
> Exactly what messages do you get when you run the command not 
> as a script?
> 
> 
> 
> Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> > 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-----
> >>From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> >>[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-----
> >>>>From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> >>>>[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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