Problem unmounting drive

[Lisa Milne]

Are you running gnome-schedule as a regular user or as root?

try running it as root with
gksudo gnome-schedule

setup the task as usual and it should work now



On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:43 +1100, David Ryder wrote:
> I used Configure Scheduled Tasks (gnome-schedule in synaptic).
> Is that what you mean by setting the cron job or have I misinterpreted
> you?
> Many thanks,
> David
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:28 +1000, Lisa Milne wrote:
> > How are you setting the cron job?
> > Are you setting it as root?
> > As I don't see this working if you were to set it as a normal user.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:23 +1100, David Ryder wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Hardy 8.10
> > > 
> > > Please can anybody in the list help with this? It is driving me nuts.
> > > 
> > > I hava a physically separate ntfs drive that I use for backups. It makes
> > > no difference if I format it ext3. The drive is not in fstab as I do not
> > > want it mounted automatically nor all the time. Keeping it in
> > > Places>Removable Media suits me fine.
> > > 
> > > I have two scripts - one to mount it and the second to unmount it. The
> > > latter will not run under cron and will only "Run In Terminal". I am
> > > denied permission to unmount it by clicking on it.
> > > 
> > > The drive is called hardy32-backups and I have made a folder called
> > > hardy32-backups in /media/ - without it the first script will not run.
> > > 
> > > The scripts are in /usr/local/bin and Schedule Tasks has the right path
> > > to them:
> > > 1. mount hardy-32-backups.sh runs at 4am and
> > > 2. unmount hardy-32-backups.sh (should) runs at 7am.
> > > 
> > > 1. mount hardy-32-backups.sh script runs fine - it contains:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > sudo mount UUID=764809814809417B /media/hardy32-backups
> > > 
> > > 2. unmount hardy-32-backups.sh does not run - which is my problem. It
> > > contains:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > sudo umount /media/hardy32-backups/
> > > 
> > > I have tried:
> > > sudo umount UUID=764809814809417B /media/hardy32-backups
> > > sudo umount UUID=764809814809417B
> > > sudo umount /hardy32-backups
> > > sudo umount /hardy32-backups/
> > > without any luck as well as running without sudo in front.
> > > 
> > > When mounted by the script it appears on the desktop and in mtab as:
> > > /dev/sdi1 /media/hardy32-backups fuseblk
> > > rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
> > > but please note it is not always sdbi1 after a reboot.
> > > 
> > > I just can't get it to umount via cron. Any help would be very much
> > > appreciated, thanks.
> > > 
> > > David
> > > 
> > > 
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