On Friday 25 April 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > On Thursday 24 April 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > Chris wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to > > > > /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent > > > > the script from writing to the mount directory: is there any easy > > > > way to prevent this? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > C > > > > > > if [ -f /mnt/music/somefile ] > > > then > > > # run your script here. > > > fi > > > > hey, cool. I wouldn't have expected anything like this! > > another alternative, since it's likely that the contents of /mnt/music > could change (I know mine does), why not do this. > > umount /mnt/music > touch /mnt/music/SENTINEL > > then do > > if [ -f /mnt/music/SENTINEL ] > then > echo "Music share is not mounted!" > exit 1; > fi > > #run your script here > > the only way SENTINEL will appear is when the NAS is *not* > mounted. And this protects whatever you are using as your SENTINEL > from inadvertent deletion. > > A
that seems like a nice approach. Why do I need to touch the SENTINEL file? C -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
