Rclone mount checking script help [SOLVED]

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1

So I’m using the rclone mount checking script found here in cron
https://github.com/ajkis/scripts/blob/master/rclone/rclone-mount.cron
I changed all of the pathing to fit my setup and it’ll respond telling me that the mount is up from cron, and even will mount it if I run the script out side of crontab. But once in crontab if I unmount the script will just say that it’s having a critical error and cannot remount
20.04.2017 19:00:21 CRITICAL: Remount failed.

something like this, does anyone know how to fix this issue? I’ve tried everything that I can think of.

2

Did you create the mountcheck file on your cloud provider?
It looks to be erroring when it checks if it exists

From the script:-----------
if [[ -f "/home/plex/acdcrypt/mountcheck" ]]; then echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Remount successful." | tee -a "$logfile" else echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") CRITICAL: Remount failed." | tee -a "$logfile" fi

3 
xxxxx@pioneer ~ $ ls ~/acd
ACDETest.txt  Anime  KC  mountcheck  Movies  Music  'NAS BACKUP.zip'  'Plex Cloud Sync'  Process  springs  
Sync  TV
xxxx@pioneer ~ $ cat ~/acd/mountcheck
ACDE

When I mount it the file is present! This is what’s confusing me about this.

4

I have also used absolute paths to everything in the script as me using a relative path was causing issues at first.

5

Is that a file or a folder?
What I wound up doing was create a mountcheck.txt file and that seemed to fix the issue for me, and then of course modify the script accordingly

6

Just tried that and it makes no difference unfortunately. :\

20.04.2017 20:22:01 ERROR: Drive not mounted, remount in progress.
20.04.2017 20:22:01 CRITICAL: Remount failed.

Here is my edited version of the script script, edited it a bit for my privacy.

#!/bin/bash
# Change paths for mount and log file & create mountchek file.
# Add script to crontb by typig crontb -e and pasting the line bellow (without # in front )
# * * * * *  /home/plex/scripts/rclone-mount.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
# Make script executable with: chmod a+x /home/plex/scripts/rclone-mount.cron

logfile="/mnt/mpathi/xxxxx/scripts/rclone-mount.cron.log"

if pidof -o %PPID -x "rclone-mount.cron"; then
   echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") EXIT: rclone-mount.cron already running."
   exit 1
fi

if [[ -f "/mnt/mpathi/xxxx/acd/mountcheck.txt" ]]; then
   echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Check successful,acdcrypt mounted." | tee -a "$logfile"
   exit
else
   echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") ERROR: Drive not mounted, remount in progress." | tee -a "$logfile"
   # Unmount before remounting 
   fusermount -uz /mnt/mpathi/xxxxx/acd | tee -a "$logfile"
   rclone mount \
       --read-only \
       --max-read-ahead 14G \
       --acd-templink-threshold 0 \
       --checkers 16 \
       --retries 3 \
       --low-level-retries 1 \
       --timeout 30s \
       --dir-cache-time 1m \
       --quiet \
       --stats 0 \
       acd:/ /mnt/mpathi/xxxxx/acd &

   if [[ -f "/mnt/mpathi/xxxxxx/acd/mountcheck.txt" ]]; then
      echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") INFO: Remount successful." | tee -a "$logfile"
   else
      echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") CRITICAL: Remount failed." | tee -a "$logfile"
   fi
fi
exit

Like i said previously though, the weird part is, it just doesn’t mount through crontab. When I run the script straight from shell it works perfectly.

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7

maybe try the absolute path to rclone as well?

/usr/bin/rclone mount \

or where ever it’s install on your system

8

That was it, holy crap the simplest thing. Thank you very much!

9

how many times happens to you that the rclone drive disconnects?
I’m using it for a week only, but until now there were no issues

do I have to add such crontab job to check?

10

Yes, it’s preferred to have a cron job.

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11

Hi guys .

When i use Ajkis version, and add it to crontab via plexuser with sudo access. After a while the cron change the rclone.conf from plex:plex to root:plex and the system demounts without remounting?

I can see that its working and checking for the mountcheck.txt file and logs it too, but all of a sudden , it changes the user for the rclone.conf ?

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Morphy