I used Configure Scheduled Tasks (gnome-schedule in synaptic). Is that what you mean by setting the cron job or have I misinterpreted you? Many thanks, David
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:28 +1000, Lisa Milne wrote: > 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 ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
