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Dear OS X Mountain Lion-users,
Whenever I try to mount my external disk drive automatically via cronjob ...
| 37 | 10 | * | * | * | /usr/sbin/diskutil mount SuperDuperBackup >>/Users/hhe/hhe.log 2>&1 |
... I receive the following error message:
Volume on disk1s2 failed to mount
However mounting works perfect in the Terminal.
Any hints?
Best regards
Heiko
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
Just an idea, but might running the command as root (either with sudo or giving the user as 'root') help?
Hello Kivanc,
Running this command via root cronjob works. But this is no solution for me as I want to run a CopyJob applescript to schedule a "SuperDuper!" backup in my user context. In this script I run the same shell script like above:
do shell script "/usr/sbin/diskutil mount SuperDuperBackup"
This results in the same error message. It used to work in Lion...
Best regards
Heiko
I found one hint on this issue in one blog entry of SuperDuper! (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/):
"[...] Basically, Apple is tracking where an application launches from, and seems to be preventing processes that launch from "cron" (one of the system schedulers), even indirectly, from mounting local disk volumes, even when that application is signed."
Mount failure during cronjob
