Help with setting up snapraid custom cron job

Hi,

I am looking to configure a custom snapraid-diff script. I am not proficient with Linux so please bear with me.

The script i wish to test is the one located here

https://gist.github.com/mtompkins/91cf0b8be36064c237da3f39ff5cc49d

I created a "scripts" directory in /usr/local/

mkdir /usr/local/scripts

I created a file called snapscript.sh in /usr/local/scripts/

nano /usr/local/scripts/snapscript.sh

I copied the code in the link above into snapscript.sh and saved it

I then went into the omv-gui and did the following

However, when i hit the "run" button i get the following error

Can someone kindly explain where I am going wrong?

Zitat von gderf

You should have pasted the raw code into your file:

https://gist.githubusercontent…fd4822b5e3e/snapScript.sh

Or you could have downloaded a zip file that contains the script.

After creating the script file did you set the executable permission bit on it?

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I copied the raw file directly into snapscript.sh using nano. Then made the changes to the user settings within the script.

Now, the permissions bit is something i did not think about.

I am logged into my server as root via putty, using the root credentials created during the installation process.

If i created the file as root in putty, shouldn't the file permission be fine for root to read, write and execute when the cron below is executed?

Anyway, i did the following to give root exexutable permission

root@test:~# ls -l /usr/local/scripts/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15637 Mar  1 00:25 snapScript.sh

root@test:~# chmod -v u+x /usr/local/scripts/snapScript.sh
mode of '/usr/local/scripts/snapScript.sh' changed from 0644 (rw-r--r--) to 0744 (rwxr--r--)

Doing the above still gave me the same error

Zitat von Soma

Why the -v flag?

AFAIK chmod doesn't have that flag.

Use chmod +x /usr/local/scripts/snapScript.sh

And check it with ls -al /usr/local/scripts/

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The -v flag i picked up from a site explaining chmod

I removed the flag and it seems to be working when i used the following command to give only root execute access.

chmod u+x /usr/local/scripts/snapScript.sh

To check if the error is repeatable i removed root execute access and it threw up the error in my initial post.

Last query on scripts, where is the most appropriate directory to store custom scripts like the snapScript.sh used above?

Zitat von gderf

You should have pasted the raw code into your file:

https://gist.githubusercontent…fd4822b5e3e/snapScript.sh

Or you could have downloaded a zip file that contains the script.

After creating the script file did you set the executable permission bit on it?

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This particular script keeps hanging for some reason at the following position

I am not sure what is going on here so I'll have a look for another script that works on my test bench