cron/terminal/script/mount questions

[Lukasha]

Hi, I’m new to the board and I have what I hope is a simple questions for you gurus out there. I have Panther server running and I would like to setup a cron job to mount a remote drive so that I can run a backup on it and then have another script to unmount the drive when it’s finished. What’s the syntax for mounting and unmounting a drive in a script? Thanks in advance for any help.

Jeff

jeff_langston mac.com

[Lukasha]

Okay, I tried playing with the mount command and I’m having issues with it. Even logged in as an admin user when I issue the command I get this result:

mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -5019, errno is 2

I can’t find the error messages anywhere so I don’t know what the problem is. This also happens if I use sudo to perform the command as root.

Also, there appears to be no unmount command although it is listed in the manpages.

Thanks again for your help.

Jeff Langston

[Lukasha]

The command I type in is this:

mount -t afp afp://tonyangellotti:[email protected]/Backup /Volumes/

When I type in the format you first showed me:

mount -t afp afp://tonyangellotti:[email protected]/Backup /Volumes/Backup

I get the error:

mount_afp: The mountpoint: /Volumes/Backup does not exist, stat returns 2

If I try:

mount -t afp afp://tonyangellotti:[email protected]/Backup /Volumes/Backup/

I get:

mount: realpath /Volumes/Backup: No such file or directory

Thanks.

Jeff

[Lukasha]

I got the error:

mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -5019, errno is 2

That’s creating the Backup dir as an admin user and as root and trying to mount as both.

Jeff

[Lukasha]

Hey MacTroll, I got it working, thanks. In all my gyrations, I had forgotten that I had renamed the share on the server. I got it working with your last set of instructions. Thanks a bunch.

Jeff

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