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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:54:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Alan DOT Miles AT firstdatacorp DOT com
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, <saber DOT zrelli AT st DOT com>, <alan DOT miles AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: different mount table per bash session
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 Alan DOT Miles AT firstdatacorp DOT com wrote:

> Saber,
>
> I had the same problem.
>
>      >>hi there ,
>
>      >>I'm using cygwin bash to run many TCP/IP servers on the same host
>      >>machine , i need each server to work with a separate drive ,  so each
>      >> time i start a server the first thing i do is to mount automatically
>      >> its corresponding  drive , but the result is that the latest mounts
>
>      >> suppress the previous one , so i have allways the same drive for all
>      >> my servers.
>
>      >> any help ?
>
>      >> Best Regards.
>
>      >>Saber.
>
> My solution uses the following saved as
> "/usr/bin/GetNumberRunningInstances"
>
>
> <Start Of Script>
> #!/bin/bash
> #The "/usr/bin/GetNumberRunningInstances" script
>
> let TheInstanceNumber="$(/usr/bin/ps -ef | /usr/bin/gawk -F ' ' ' BEGIN {
> TheCount = 0; } { if (($3 == 1) && ($6 == "/usr/bin/bash" )) then
> TheCount++;} END { print TheCount }')"
>
>
> /usr/bin/echo "${TheInstanceNumber}"
>
> # End-Of-Script.
> < End of Script>
>
> To use I then use a a file in /etc/profile.d/
>
> containing the lines:
>
> let NewInstanceNumber="$(/usr/bin/GetNumberRunningInstances)"
>
> /usr/bin/echo ""
> /usr/bin/echo "NewInstanceNumber: '${NewInstanceNumber}'"
> /usr/bin/echo ""
>
> if [ ${NewInstanceNumber} -eq 1 ]
> then
>    /usr/bin/echo "<Start>    Mounting User Drives ..."
>    /usr/bin/echo ""
>
>    <<mount drives>>
>    /usr/bin/echo ""
>    /usr/bin/echo "<Finished> Mounting User Drives ... continueing ..."
> else
>    /usr/bin/echo "Not Re-Mounting User Drives - Already Mounted ...
> continueing ..."
> fi
>
> /usr/bin/echo ""
>
> That got around the problem for me.
> --------------------------------
> Alan Miles

Alan,

FYI, once you change the mount table, you change it globally for all
running instances.
	Igor
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