Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:49:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: sjr@home.net (Stephen J. Roznowski) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Existance of /var/backups for periodic/daily Message-ID: <199908170349.UAA10347@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <199908170237.WAA92253@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> from "Stephen J. Roznowski" at "Aug 16, 1999 10:37:40 pm"
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> The 200-220 periodic files under daily expect that the directory
> /var/backups exist when they run to back up various files. If you
> delete this directory, the "cp" commands will error.
>
> There seems to be two ways to fix the files.
>
> 1. Add a "if [ ! -d $bak ] ; then exit fi" to the top
> of the files, or
>
> 2. Add a "mkdir -p $bak" to the top.
>
> Do others consider this an error, and if so which is the preferred
> fix?
I consider it an error, but prefer neither fix, here is something more
defensive and verbose in light of failure modes:
if [ ! -e $bak ] ; then
echo "${0}: $bak missing, creating";
mkdir -p $bak;
else
if [ ! -d $bak ] ; then
echo "${0}: $bak exists and is not a directory, aborting";
exit 1;
fi
fi
--
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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