ntpMerlin ntpMerlin and connmon messing around with post-mount

[Jeffrey Young]

@Jack Yaz

I have a small problem with ntpMerlin and cronmon. I am using an SSD drive on my AC86U that has multiple partitions on it (one for entware, one for a future swap partition and one that I am keeping NTFS).

Since I use Samba on the router, the router wants to auto-mount all three partitions at startup. That is fine. However, to keep all your start up scripts from trying to run with each partition that gets mounted, I test for the right mount point first (entware volume), and only run your start up scripts if the right mount point is passed (post-mount is called with one arg which is the mount point).

However, it looks like every 10 minutes ntpMerlin and cronmon checks post-mount and takes your script start entries and moves them from my test statement to the end of the post-mount script. Defeating what I am trying to do. Any easy way of getting this behavior to stop? Save manually messing with your script (I see where it is doing it).

Not a biggy as there seems to be no harm just letting your scripts complain when they are trying to start multiple times, but if I can avoid it, it would make me happy. Or maybe I am fussing over nothing.

It would make me even happier if the router would stop auto-mounting every partition it finds when Samba is being used just because it can, but I guess I can't have everything.

Cheers and good work.

 

[Jack Yaz]

@Jack Yaz

I have a small problem with ntpMerlin and cronmon. I am using an SSD drive on my AC86U that has multiple partitions on it (one for entware, one for a future swap partition and one that I am keeping NTFS).

Since I use Samba on the router, the router wants to auto-mount all three partitions at startup. That is fine. However, to keep all your start up scripts from trying to run with each partition that gets mounted, I test for the right mount point first (entware volume), and only run your start up scripts if the right mount point is passed (post-mount is called with one arg which is the mount point).

However, it looks like every 10 minutes ntpMerlin and cronmon checks post-mount and takes your script start entries and moves them from my test statement to the end of the post-mount script. Defeating what I am trying to do. Any easy way of getting this behavior to stop? Save manually messing with your script (I see where it is doing it).

Not a biggy as there seems to be no harm just letting your scripts complain when they are trying to start multiple times, but if I can avoid it, it would make me happy. Or maybe I am fussing over nothing.

It would make me even happier if the router would stop auto-mounting every partition it finds when Samba is being used just because it can, but I guess I can't have everything.

Cheers and good work.

My scripts already test for entware so your check is unnecessary

 

[Jeffrey Young]

My scripts already test for entware so your check is unnecessary

Perfect, thanks.

 

[dave14305]

Are you indenting the lines when you put them in an if condition? Leave them at the start of the line and see if that helps, if you still want to keep that check.

 

[Jeffrey Young]

Are you indenting the lines when you put them in an if condition? Leave them at the start of the line and see if that helps, if you still want to keep that check.

Yes I was. I will give that a go. Just trying to keep them from trying to start, when already started should the entware partition be the first to be mounted. I will report back.

EDIT: That worked. Should have looked at Jack's script a little closer - I would have seen that. That will teach me for doing a "quick" glance.

 

[Jeffrey Young]

Are you indenting the lines when you put them in an if condition? Leave them at the start of the line and see if that helps, if you still want to keep that check.

That worked @dave14305

That teaches me for doing a "quick" glance at Jack's script. I should have seen that. Post-mount does not look clean, but works.

Maybe a covid-19 project at home tonight to come up with a better test.

Thanks

 

[L&LD]

If 'cronmon' is 'connmon', perhaps editing the post title is appropriate?