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Unix Script Not Giving Desired Result

Hi all,

I am using the command:

mount -t cifs //10.41.5.242/warehouse -o username=warehouse,password=password /mnt/warehouse_win

This command works ok, however when I put it in a script it returns with the error:

"mount error: can not change directory into mount target /mnt/warehouse_win"

I have whittled down my script so it now only contains the mount command to try and eliminate the problem so i've obviously donw something wrong somewhere.

Cheers
K

medvedd

Please double-check that mount point exists:

file /mnt/warehouse_win
ls -l /mnt

techmiss

ASKER

Yes the mount point exists, as I ran the command outside of the script and it worked fine.

Below is by desired mount point.

[root@server /]# ls -l /mnt
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 22 13:59 warehouse_win

Thanks

K

jfaubiontx

Please post the script. From what I see here this should work. As a test I used the following script:

#!/bin/bash

# Mount the directory
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.50/PDFStorage -o username=jfaubion,password=MyPassWd /mnt/warehouse_win

This mounts with no issues on both Fedora 12 and Centos 5.4. Granted not Red Hat exactly but the closest flavors I had available tonight.

techmiss

ASKER

Hi,

Code is below, when I run this script using ./scriptname.sh I now get the message:

": bad interpreter: No such file or directory"

When I run the same mount command at the command line it mounts successfully.

Thanks

K

#!/bin/bash
#mount the directory
mount -t cifs //10.41.5.242/warehouse -o username=warehouse,password=password /mnt/warehouse_win

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jfaubiontx

So did that fix the issue?

Julian Parker

did you whittle your script down a lot?

I have to agree with jfaubiontx about the error above, I'd bet you've got ^M chars at the end of the lines.

I'm also wondering if /mnt is mounted by something else before, I only ask because you did not show the interpreter error in your original Q.

techmiss

ASKER

Was the second option - script was indeed edited in notepad.

Thanks.