On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:41, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a cron based backup script that mounts an smbfs share in order to > backup a windows machine. > > Each morning in my mail I get the following load of diagnostics from what > appears to be the basic mount commant > > opts: ro > opts: noexec > opts: nosuid > opts: nodev > opts: noauto > opts: users > opts: uid=34 > opts: credentials=/etc/smbfs/backup > passthrough options 'noexec,nosuid,nodev,noauto,users' > mount.smbfs started (version 3.0.0-Debian) > added interface ip=10.0.10.100 bcast=10.0.10.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 > resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name pooh<0x20> > Connecting to 10.0.10.2 at port 445 > error connecting to 10.0.10.2:445 (Connection refused) > Connecting to 10.0.10.2 at port 139 > > > Thats from a script that does > > mount //pooh/backup 2>/dev/null || exit 0 > > and a /etc/fstab entry of > > //pooh/backup /bak/pooh/mnt smbfs > ro,users,noauto,uid=backup,credentials=/etc/smbfs/backup 0 0 > > > Is there anyway to tell mount.smbfs to shut up and be quiet????
Definitely works: mount //pooh/backup > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || exit 0 May work: mount //pooh/backup > /dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 Is this emailed to you, or dropped in /var/log/syslog? If it's mailed to you (which it what I think is happening), you can always put this in line 2 of the script, and do away with the redirection: MAILTO="" -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question)." Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
