On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:27:36AM -0400, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: CFEngine Help >Subject: Re: querying mountpoints >Author: neilhwatson >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26982,26994#msg-26994 > >Ideally we like to promise any dependencies. So rather than promsing to >install files if this mount is active it is more thourough to promise to mount >a filesystem then promise to isntall files if the mount promise is kept or >repaired. Either way you'll still need to know about the mount status. > >Without a built-in 'ismount' function I would whip up someting involving >execresults and the mount command.
...and hope that you don't get stuck when a stat() call on a dead mount blocks. On linux, the safest way I've found to check a mount is to query /proc/mounts (via 'grep' if needed), instead of calling 'mount' and parsing that output. -- Jesse Becker NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
