Re: [MLUG] backup via cron

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If I was having this problem in my computer, at this stage I would 
putting in printf commands in various places in the mkisofs and 
growisofs commands.  It might even be some subtle bug in these programs 
that causes unprintable characters in the file name - a bug that only 
happens occasionally, and you happen to be accidently triggering it. 
And even if it is some kind of operator error, sometimes these debug 
statements can help you find it.

If you are on campus, maybe I could come by sometime and try to fix it.

Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> I think you might have something here.  It may not be mkisofs though.
> It could be growisofs that is parsing the command line arguments in a
> non interactive mode. 
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nowlin, Dan
> > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:58 AM
> > To: MLUG Members
> > Subject: RE: [MLUG] backup via cron
> >
> > I checked the command in the script for any hidden 
> > characters, found none.  I created the script with nano. 
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Rages
> > > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:42 AM
> > > To: MLUG Members
> > > Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup via cron
> > >
> > > On 2/3/06, Stephen Montgomery-Smith 
> >
> > <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> > > > Nowlin, Dan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks guys.  I am not the typical user.  When I have a
> > >
> > > problem it
> > >
> > > > > usually is a doosy :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You did try the export thing, didn't you?
> > >
> > > It's not gonna help.  I've been looking through the source code to 
> > > mkisofs.
> > >
> > > This error:
> > > mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - /var/ftp/files
> > >
> > > is getting printed by mkisofs.  So mkisofs is getting called OK.
> > >
> > > and the stat("/var/ftp/files") call is failing and giving a 
> >
> > "file not 
> >
> > > found" error.
> > >
> > > Wild theory time: the editor is putting some invisible bad 
> >
> > character 
> >
> > > in the script file, so what looks like "/var/ftp/files" is actually 
> > > "[space]/var/ftp/files" or something.  Dan, what editor did 
> >
> > you make 
> >
> > > the script with?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Mark
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