[mdlug] Adding a shell script to run after boot.

[Adam Behnke]

i am trying to trying to determine if the usb is mounted and create an
alternate method of playing the menuboard it the usb drive didn't mount.

thank you for the suggestions, i'll trying grepping and mounting somewhere
other than /media if it doesn't see the usb drive and googling dbus signals.






On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 09:26:24AM -0400, Adam Behnke wrote:
> >
> > the script currently, works in terminal, fails on startup
> >
> > #!/bin/bash -l
> > echo "initializing"
> > if [ "$(ls -A /media/videowall9)" ]; then
>
> What are you trying to do here?  Determine if the mountpoint exists?
> You might be better off replacing the "$(..)" with a grep of
> /proc/mounts.
>
> > umount /media/videowall9
> > rmdir /media/videowall9
>
> I bet /media is an automount directory (or something gvfs monitors?)
> so you can't willy-nilly create and delete mountpoints in /media.
> Also, this is running in your user's context, and I doubt it has the
> ability to create and remove mountpoints in /media.  This is why the
> automount systems exist.
>
> If you really want to have your external storage always mounted
> somewhere, put it in /etc/fstab and mount it someplace other than
> /media.  There are options you can set to have the user have the
> ability to mount/unmount it on demand, although not automatically.
>
> If you want some command to run on graphical login, you need to have
> it either listen for an event from the DBus system about the
> mountpoint, or (less complex) just have it sit around and wait until
> the mountpoints exist.
>
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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