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Mover users Script Failure

  • November 8, 2011
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  • Anonymous

Hi,

we've been using a script to move the user accounts to a different
partition.

#!/bin/sh

mv /Users /Volumes/Accounts
chown root:wheel /Volumes/Accounts/Users
chmod 755 /Volumes/Accounts/Users
rm -rf /Users
ln -s /Volumes/Accounts/Users /Users

All of a sudden it's stopped working.

We ran the script at build time and it doesn't actually do anything.

If we then push it out via Casper Remote it fails with this error...

Script Result:shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: No such file or
directoryjob-working-directory:
error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
directories: No such file or directoryUnmounting file server...shell-init:
error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
directories: No such file or directoryjob-working-directory: error
retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No
such file or directoryshell-init: error retrieving current directory:
getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or
directoryjob-working-directory:
error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
directories: No such file or directory

However, it does actually work?

Not ideal to run it after the mac is built and I'm wondering why it would
suddenly fail during build as nothing has changed with regards to our build
images since it last worked.

Any ideas/help appreciated.

-- Regards,

Al Platt
Imagination IT

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    • nessts
    • Valued Contributor
    • 1007 replies
    • November 8, 2011

    why not mount your accounts/Users disk at /Users by creating an /etc/fstab file, and making sure a /Users/Shared exists at boot time?
    fstab should look something like this, assuming your disk is labeled accounts.
    #
    # Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
    #
    # Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
    #
    LABEL=Accounts /Users hfs rw 1 0

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    Todd Ness
    Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
    Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
    HP Enterprise Services

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    • Rhio
    • Contributor
    • 12 replies
    • May 19, 2021

    this is a way old post but for anyone who googled this error while creating a pkg and Jamf this is where you're taken

    SOLUTION:
    your #!/bin/bash doesn't have a space in it (like the original poster's doesnt)
    it should be:
    **

    #! /bin/bash

    **
    (with a space between the ! and the /)

    That should solve why your pre/postinstall scripts say they're compiling incorrectly in Composer


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