Thanks a lot, Alexander! I was considering shell scripting, but never having
any experience with smbfs, I am not sure how to approach the problem. I
appreciate your suggestion and will test them.
~mark
>>> Alexander Foken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11-May-06 01:21:08 AM >>>
How about a simple shell script?
#!/bin/sh
mount -t smbfs //server/share /mnt/blabla
cp /mnt/blabla/path/on/the/share/* /some/where
umount /mnt/blabla
# and if you want to work with the files:
perl yourscript.pl -some -arguments /some/where
(Of course, you could also implement the calls to mount and umount in
Perl, and copy the files using File::Find and File::Copy.)
You could also work with the files directly from the server:
#!/bin/sh
mount -t smbfs //server/share /mnt/blabla
perl yourscript.pl -some -arguments /mnt/blabla/path/on/the/share
# - or -
# cd /mnt/blabla/path/on/the/share
# perl yourscript.pl -some -arguments .
# cd /
umount /mnt/blabla
To allow mounting and unmounting without root privileges, you should
create a matching entry in /etc/fstab (man 5 fstab), using the "user"
parameter. Something like
//server/share /mnt/blabla smbfs noauto,user,rw 0 0
In that case, only /mnt/blabla is required as argument for mount.
Alexander
On 10.05.2006 22:50, Mark Galbreath wrote:
>Not directly on topic, but close....
>
>I am automating the import of Oracle DBM datafiles into MySQL tables via DBI,
>DBD::XBase, and DBD::mysql. The files are on a Novell shared directory on a
>Windows server and my app will run on a linux kernel 2.6 box. I have smbmount
>3.0.10-1 installed. Are there any perl modules/utilities I can scrounge to
>transfer those DBF files programmatically (cron) to my linux workstation?
>
>tia,
>mark
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