I'm trying to get user homes from the central (debian) server mounted on some shared Dell minis.

I have to pass username and directory to the server, so I adapted a little script that looks like this:

#! /bin/sh
echo -n "user name: "
read user
echo -n "year: "
read year
sshfs $user@server.domain:/path/to/homes/$year/$user ~/myhome
exit

If I run this script in a terminal, it works correctly - the server prompts for password and the share is mounted.

I created a shortcut to the script on the desktop.
When I click the shortcut, Gnome asks what to do and I choose "run in terminal".
The script runs and prompts for username, year and the server prompts for password. Then the terminal closes. However the share is NOT mounted.

Any idea what is going wrong?

thanks

nigel

nothing off hand, but put some logging statements into it to see what the variables actually are taken as during exectution, log the sshfs command output etc... if you go from:


sshfs $user@server.domain:/path/to/homes/$year/$user ~/myhome

to

echo about to run sshfs $user@server.domain:/path/to/homes/$year/$user ~/myhome | logger
sshfs $user@server.domain:/path/to/homes/$year/$user ~/myhome 2>&1 | logger

then you'll have a lot more info in /var/log/messages to make sense of.

I received a suggestion that sshfs was dying when the terminal closed.
Adding nohup to the mount command fixed it (though I get some extra messages and a nohup.out file on the desktop)
Thanks for the help.