Didn't see that.  So the cd out of the directory WAS actually essential.
Excellent!  Thanks for the help!

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Eric Mountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Mykel Alvis spake thus:
> > It SEEMS (but I'm not sure) of the following
> > A) When my dirvish server connects to the client, it attempts to cd to
> the
> > target tree prior to running the pre-client.  I have no idea why that
> would
> > be, but it doesn't cause the rest of it to fail.
> > B) When my dirvish server is finished, the process remains cd'd in the
> tree
> > filesystem.  This causes the umount of post-client script to fail,
> causing
> > the lvremove to fail, leaving my client with a potentially ugly situation
> > involving a residual LVM snapshot.
>
> I believe the answer is in the dirvish.conf man page.  Here's an extract
> from
> the pre-server, pre-client, etc. section:
>
>  Each pre or post shell_commands will be run with these environment
>  variables DIRVISH_SERVER, DIRVISH_CLIENT, DIRVISH_SRC, DIRVISH_DEST
>  and DIRVISH_IMAGE set.  The current directory will be DIRVISH_SRC on
>  the client and DIRVISH_DEST on the server.
>
> That last sentence looks to me like it fits your symptoms...
>
> Cheers
> --
> Eric Mountain
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