<quote who="Stuart">
> smbmount of a PC's remote HDD to /mnt/remotedisk
(These days, the recommended method is mount -t smbfs, btw.)
> How do I tell in perl-speak (ie without rewriting the whole thing in
> Java) that the mount point succeeded.
>
> I'm happy to put a file on the remote HDD and search for it's existence
> or some such.
>
> If the mount fails, the root filesystem on the server fills as the
> backup proceeds to /mnt/remotedisk. Aarrrgh.
How about grepping the output of 'mount' for the mountpoint? That's how I'd
do it in bash. :-)
- Jeff
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