[mdlug] Lurkers Please Talk to Me

[Brian Brodsky]

Carl,

Thank you. If I need an example on checking the results of a touch I 
will let you know. I will look into getting this work around to work.

Brian

On 5/19/2011 8:31 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
> Brian Brodsky wrote:
>> I usually do not have questions and most things seem to get adequate
>> responses. But since you mention it I have been having a problem with
>> rsyncs (inside a cron job script) to new external usb drives. I think
>> the issue is related to these drives having some sort of sleep mode. I
>> tried to get around this by doing an ls command to the drive a couple
>> times with sleep commands. The directory commands seem to work now but
>> when it tries to rsync sometimes it gets errors writing to the drives
>> saying it is a read only file system. Which I had rsynced to the same
>> partition earlier in the day. Any suggestions?
> You might want to put a test in your script to find if the
> filesystem has become read only.  It could be as simple as
> touching a file and seeing if you get an error.  If you do
> get an error, remount the drives.
>
> Incidentally, I usually put tests in scripts like this to
> make sure the filesystems are mounted and certain files or
> directories exist before launching the rsync command.  If
> anything isn't right, I have the script send me email letting
> me know what the problem is.
>
> Let me know if you'd like to see a sample of this is a
> shell script.
>
> c
>
>
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