[LUG] copying files from a camera. using a shell script

[paul sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
Using suse 9.1

I am trying to write a script to mount my camera which is usb,  I can access 
this using mount /dev/sda1 /media/camera
this doing ls -l /media/camera. shows the directory listings fine

my script is as follows

#!/bin/sh
echo "camera mounting and copy routine"
#root check
if [ "$UID" -ne 0 ]
then

       echo "YOU ARE NOT RUNNING AS ROOT"
exit 1
else
       echo "$(date) you are running as root, mounting and copying files"
       echo
fi
       mount /dev/sda1  /media/camera
       ls -l /media/camera
       cp /media/camera/*.* /home/pausut/camera/
       ls -l /home/pausut/camera
echo
echo done
exit 1

I get the following error message,  I don't understand the bit about cannot 
stat

mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
total 0
cp: cannot stat `/media/camera/*.*': No such file or directory
total 0

the first part of this tells me it's not mounted, but I can cd to the camera 
fine. 

My mtab file is here, 
/dev/hda7 / reiserfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat 
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=437 0 
0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat 
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=437 0 
0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder subfs ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom subfs ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/dvd subfs ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/camera vfat rw 0 0


However this is edited as it also contained the line

/dev/sdb1 /media/usb-storage-Y172^^^^^000919X0000002003117:0:0:0p1 

this was before the last line,  however this caused the camera to be auto 
mounted, but also not accessable

Could not enter 
folder /media/usb-storage-Y172^^^^^000919X0000002003117:0:0:0p1


I am running bash,  is it ok to use /bin/sh,  i have not had problems with
this before, removing 

What have I done wrong,  I think there is a problem with auto mounting, why is 
the mount point so long,  usb-storage etc etc. 


whats going wrong.  and how do i stop it mounting the camera where it does, 
and just have it mount on /dev/sda1 /media/camera. which is much easier.  it 
worked fine with suse 9.0

Thanks

paul

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