Re: Noisy mount

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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=""

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