diff --git a/remount_checker/README.md b/remount_checker/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0f9e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/remount_checker/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Remount Checker + +This is a very simple program to check if a particular folder is a mounted folder or not. If it's not, run the mount command - simple! + +## ``mount_points`` +You *need* a ``mount_points.py`` file. The ``example_mount_points.py`` provides an example format (it's a touple - first element is the folder to check, second element is the command to run). + +## ``mount`` command +You'll need to make sure that the ``cron``user (can't think of the exact correct term - the user that cron _pretends_(?) to be when runnign the command??) is able to actually run the mount command. There are 2 simple options that I can see: + +1. Use ``sudo crontab -e`` and make ``root`` use run the command, or +2. Make your user able to run the mount command. I'm sorry I don't know 100%, but I think that means adding ``user`` to the mount options in ``fstab``. + +## crontab +The idea is you should run this is crontab every X minutes - 5 seems to work fine for me. An example crontab is: + +``*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/python /home//code/remount_checker/remount.py`` + +Replace (and the rest) with the location of remount