Fdisk and grep command not working in udev trigger


 
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Old 09-12-2018
Fdisk and grep command not working in udev trigger

Hi Guys,

Can someone take a look at my scripts what missing, plugin usb drive the script is running can log all my echo but cannot execute command. Is there any configuration in linux or to my scripts need to add?.

What i want to achieve is every time I plugin the usbdisk automatic mount to /media/usb/test

Code:
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/100-mount-usb.rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="8564", ATTR{idProduct}=="1000", RUN+="/bin/bash -c /usr/local/bin/test.sh"

Code:
cat /usr/local/bin/test.sh

#!/bin/bash

LOG_FILE=/opt/weekly_backup.log

DEVNAME=$(fdisk -l |grep FAT16 |awk '{print $1}')

echo "New usb device detected at $DEVNAME" >> $LOG_FILE

echo "mount $DEVNAME /media/usb/test" >> $LOG_FILE

mount $DEVNAME /media/usb/test &>> $LOG_FILE

Reload all rules in udev:
Code:
udevadm control --reload-rules

Trigger all udev rules:
Code:
udevadm trigger

Here the log ouput:
Code:
cat /opt/weekly_backup.log

New usb device detected at
mount  /media/usb/test
mount: can't find /media/usb/test in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


Last edited by lxdorney; 09-12-2018 at 12:06 PM..
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Old 09-12-2018
Which distribution of Linux??
# 3  
Old 09-12-2018
Just a shot in the dark: did you consider supplying the full pathnames?
# 4  
Old 09-12-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Just a shot in the dark: did you consider supplying the full pathnames?
Yes sir I did tried /bin/fdisk, /bin/grep

------ Post updated at 05:47 PM ------

Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
Which distribution of Linux??
CentOS 6.8 Sir
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Old 09-12-2018
Looking at the output(mount /media/usb/test), DEVNAME is not set. It looks like the previous fdisk command is not returning anything. What is fdisk -l |grep FAT16 |awk '{print $1}' returning if you run it manually?

If DEVNAME isn't set, the mount command won't know which device to mount, and will look in the fstab / mtab for /media/usb/test to figure out what to do.
# 6  
Old 09-12-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
Looking at the output(mount /media/usb/test), DEVNAME is not set. It looks like the previous fdisk command is not returning anything. What is fdisk -l |grep FAT16 |awk '{print $1}' returning if you run it manually?

If DEVNAME isn't set, the won't get the name, and will look for it in the fstab / mtab for how / what to mount.
Supposedly it will return /dev/sdb1 in my case, already tried manually like this DEVNAME="/dev/sdb1" and put echo $DEVNAME and i see the output, but is not mounting
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Old 09-12-2018
"Supposedly" doesn't really instil confidence Smilie You tried setting DEVNAME manually, and that also didn't work?

Is all of the code in the same script.. e.g. did you export DEVNAME if it's not?

If you set DEVNAME manually, after (or in place of) the fdisk command, there's no reason that the output would be
Code:
mount /media/usb/test

instead of
Code:
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/test

If the variable DEVNAME is not created as read-only (e.g. gives an error why you try to set it), and the script is not being run in a shell jail (chroot environment), that is.
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