Alias command causing hell

xmumblesx2k4 · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

Hey

Everything so far on my gentoo system is workin' great, just whenever I try to input an alias for mounting a windows share, it spits me back out to a prompt that looks like ">" which I can't do anything with

I type: alias downloads="mount -t smbfs //pentiumPC/Downloads /mnt/downloads -o username=username,password=password

but whenever I do that I just get taken back to an weird looking ">" prompt that I can do nothing at (the command obviously didn't work)

I'll post the output of .bashrc if anyone needs it

any help would be appreciated on how to get this workin' again

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject:

I hope the missing "is just a typo?

xmumblesx2k4 · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

yeah, the " is a typo, its just weird as the syntax of it looks fine...

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject:

And if you use ' instead of " ?

xmumblesx2k4 · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

ok, with a ' instead of " it seems to go through, but whenever I run the command "downloads" (no quotes) it just gives a command not found error :?:

I appologize for soundin' like a n00b, thanks for the help so far

xmumblesx2k4 · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

ok, I got the alias command to show up without a problem, but now when I type alias into the konsole as a normal user, I see the alias I made before, but when I go to run the comand "downloads" (no quotes) it says mount: only root can do that. So I su to root and try to run it but it says command not found

Interesting thing is I'm assuming I need to input this alias command into the .bashrc file of root's home directory /root but when I do ls -a in /root there's only ".bash_history" and no .bashrc

, any way to possibly copy .bashrc from my normal user home directory to /root?

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

Are you trying this as a user or as root?
If as a user use smbmount instead of mount -t smbfs (rest of the command the same)
As root it should work, I guess you already tried if the command works when you don't have it as an alias
If you type alias with no options it should list the alias in usage. Is downloads listed?

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

You can create a .bashrc in /root, but it won't be used unless you also make a .bash_profile with:
[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc
To mount a samba share as user use smbmount like I explained before

xmumblesx2k4 · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7

added this alias to root's .bashrc using the syntax you explained for the bash_profile file, and it worked like a charm!

Thanks again for all your help BlackEdder, I'll remember that for future reference

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:

BTW the reason for using ' instead of " has to do with regular expressions. A sentence between "" will be checked for regular expressions (and I think / are used for regular expressions) while a sentence between ' will be seen as a string. Therefore you're better of using ' just to be on the safe side

NOTE: I'm not 100% sure about all this, so if someone knows the real reason plz enlighten me

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