Re: [MLUG] backup via cron

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mark Rages wrote:
> On 2/3/06, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > 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!
> > ?
>
>
> from the man page I quoted earlier:
>
>        If  the  media  already carries isofs and growisofs is invoked with -Z
>        option non-interactively,  e.g.  through  cron,  it  shall  fail  with
>        "FATAL:  /dev/dvd  already  carries  isofs!" Note that only ISO9660 is
>        recognized, you can perfectly zap e.g. an UDF filesystem  non-interac-
>        tively.
>
> This explains why it works directly from the shell, and fails in the
> script.  growisofs senses it's being run from a script and changes
> from WARNING to FATAL.   (I'm guessing there's a bug and it prints
> WARNING in the error message, but aborts anyway.)

That would make sense.

What does

mkisofs -version

or

mkisofs --version

do?






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