From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eve Atley" Subject: RE: Thought I was mounting drive correctly, but backup failed Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:49:36 -0500 Message-ID: <00bf01c52694$fbf85b60$4f0aa8c0@lanadmin> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20050311144254.02050060@celine> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20050311144254.02050060@celine> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: 'Ray Olszewski' , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org >Hmmm ... have you created (touch'ed) the file /mnt/backup/connected on the >backup drive? If not, the script is failing to perform the backup because >the conditional in its if statement (if [ -f /mnt/backup/connected ];) >fails. And the script has no instructions for what to do if the if test >fails (no "else", that is), so nothing would get logged in this case. Oh my! Let's go with this one first. :) I copied the connected file over from the old machine and I'll see if that solves my problems. :) - Eve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs