On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:34:51PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
| Derrick 'dman' Hudson (<dman@dman13.dyndns.org>) wrote:
| > I have a shell script on one debian system here to back up certain
| > portions of the filesystem. It simply tars up the directories and
| > moves the tar file to a samba share which is backed up by some already
| > in-place windows software.
| >
| > The problem is that mv is too noisy :
| > mv: failed to preserve ownership for
| > `/mnt/red1/Builds/cvsbackup/CVS-Backup-2004-01-21.tar.gz':
| > Operation not permitted
| >
| > This is a problem because I then become conditioned to ignore emails
| > from cron assuming they only contain this non-problem. However,
| > sometimes there is a real problem and I need to know about it.
| > Therefore, I want this particular error message to not be reported,
| > however I want other errors (for example No space left on device) to
| > go to stderr. When this script is run, stdout is sent to a log file
| > and stderr (if any) is sent to me via mail.
| >
| > Any suggestions?
|
| Wouldn't the easiest way be to set the ownership of the file to that of
| the Samba mount before moving it?
That sounds like a plausible solution.
-D
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