How are you setting the cron job? Are you setting it as root? As I don't see this working if you were to set it as a normal user.
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:23 +1100, David Ryder wrote: > Hi, > Hardy 8.10 > > Please can anybody in the list help with this? It is driving me nuts. > > I hava a physically separate ntfs drive that I use for backups. It makes > no difference if I format it ext3. The drive is not in fstab as I do not > want it mounted automatically nor all the time. Keeping it in > Places>Removable Media suits me fine. > > I have two scripts - one to mount it and the second to unmount it. The > latter will not run under cron and will only "Run In Terminal". I am > denied permission to unmount it by clicking on it. > > The drive is called hardy32-backups and I have made a folder called > hardy32-backups in /media/ - without it the first script will not run. > > The scripts are in /usr/local/bin and Schedule Tasks has the right path > to them: > 1. mount hardy-32-backups.sh runs at 4am and > 2. unmount hardy-32-backups.sh (should) runs at 7am. > > 1. mount hardy-32-backups.sh script runs fine - it contains: > #!/bin/sh > sudo mount UUID=764809814809417B /media/hardy32-backups > > 2. unmount hardy-32-backups.sh does not run - which is my problem. It > contains: > #!/bin/sh > sudo umount /media/hardy32-backups/ > > I have tried: > sudo umount UUID=764809814809417B /media/hardy32-backups > sudo umount UUID=764809814809417B > sudo umount /hardy32-backups > sudo umount /hardy32-backups/ > without any luck as well as running without sudo in front. > > When mounted by the script it appears on the desktop and in mtab as: > /dev/sdi1 /media/hardy32-backups fuseblk > rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0 > but please note it is not always sdbi1 after a reboot. > > I just can't get it to umount via cron. Any help would be very much > appreciated, thanks. > > David > > -- WebLinux - Linux live on the web! http://www.weblinux-live.org -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
