RE: [MLUG] backup via cron

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

ls in a script works fine.  I did an updatedb for locate and no other
version of mkisofs or growisofs is on the system.  I did not try the
export. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:19 AM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> 
> Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> > check the update and none is available.  Not too good at compiling. 
> 
> I don't think it is an issue.  I found the source for 
> growisofs 5.21, and the bug that Dan hinted might be present 
> isn't there.  If it isn't going to work because it is 
> non-interactive, it has to write the message "FATAL" not "WARNING".
> 
> I am getting the feeling that the issue is with mkisofs.  
> Somehow it is not able to see /var/ftp/files.
> 
> WHat if you write a script containing
> 
> ls -ld /var/ftp/files
> 
> and run that?  I already saw what happened when you run that 
> command not as a script.
> 
> Also, locate only finds stuff that was put into its database. 
>  Is there a file called mkisofs in /root or /root/bin?
> 
> Also, did you try the
> 
> export MKISOFS=/usr/bin/mkisofs
> growisofs ......
> command sequence?
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
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> >>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen 
> >>Montgomery-Smith
> >>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:11 AM
> >>To: MLUG Members
> >>Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> >>
> >>I have growisofs version 6.0.  Any chance you could upgrade?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> >>
> >>>#mkisofs -version
> >>>mkisofs 2.01
> >>>
> >>>#growisofs --version
> >>>* growisofs by <EMAIL:PROTECTED>, version 5.21,
> >>>  front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> >>>>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen 
> >>>>Montgomery-Smith
> >>>>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:57 AM
> >>>>To: MLUG Members
> >>>>Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> >>>>
> >>>>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?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>Mark
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