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# 22  
Old 01-31-2011
Have you looked into cfengine. It does Continuous datacenter automation and repair. May be a bit of overkill but there could be more uses as you look at what it can do.
# 23  
Old 02-01-2011
Code:
/Library/Scripts/rms_web.sh: line 4: [: /Users//Library/Application: binary operator expected
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-pvX] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-pvX] source_file ... target_directory
usage: mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] directory ...
/Library/Scripts/rms_web.sh: line 8: /Users//Library/Application Support/RMS: No such file or directory
/Library/Scripts/rms_web.sh: line 9: /Users/admin/Public/RMS/RMS Coach: is a directory
/Library/Scripts/rms_web.sh: line 10: /Users//Library/Application Support/RMS: No such file or directory
chown: /Users//Library/Application: Invalid argument

Last edited by Scott; 02-01-2011 at 11:57 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 24  
Old 02-01-2011
Well, there is always 'if [ $( ls -ld "$dir_location" 2>/dev/null | grep -c '^d' ) = 1 ]' to cure the first error, since we cannot cure or diagnose 'if [ -d "$dir_location" ]'.
# 25  
Old 02-01-2011
Are you running this as a login hook? The problem appears to be that the
$1 in the DIR variable is not being expanded, or translated by the computer to mean the user who is currently logged in. Did you copy my exact code?

You can try this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
RMS_LOCATION="/Users/admin/Public/RMS"
USR=`who |awk '{print $1}'|uniq`
DIR="/Users/${USR}/Library/Application Support/RMS"
if [ -d "$DIR" ]; then
echo ""
else
cp -R $RMS_LOCATION "$DIR" ||mkdir 
"/Users/$USR/Library/Application Support/RMS" && cp -R 
/Users/admin/Public/RMS/* 
"/Users/${USR}/Library/Application Support/RMS"
chown -R $USR "$DIR"
fi
exit 0

Last edited by glev2005; 02-01-2011 at 08:52 PM..
# 26  
Old 02-03-2011
the script manually works, but it returns these errors:


/Library/Scripts/rms_web2.sh: line 9: /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/RMS: is a directory
/Library/Scripts/rms_web2.sh: line 10: /Users/admin/Public/RMS/RMS Coach: is a directory
/Library/Scripts/rms_web2.sh: line 11: /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/RMS: is a directory


and it doesn't run as a loginhook for some reason. i guess that part's ok with me.

for the record, i had done a:

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /Library/Scripts/rms_web2.sh
# 27  
Old 02-03-2011
Those errors are because the directory already exists.. I see you're in NJ, I live in Nanuet.. maybe I could come take a look sometime..
# 28  
Old 02-03-2011
the directory didn't exist when i ran the script. those errors happened when i ran the script for the first time.

Nanuet, huh? that's just a few miles away. I'm here in Englewood!
 
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