Re: Feature Request - Message to user of machine being backed up

You are a genius! I didn't look in the XferLOG file, only the LOG files.

In the XferLOG file was:

Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /bin/alert_user.sh
/bin/alert_user.sh: smbclient: command not found

Duh!

I put in the full path to smbclient in the script, and it worked like a charm!

Thanks again- 

Mark



Quoting Craig Barratt <cbarratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> > Has anybody been able to make this work?
> 
> Yes.  Attached is one message from the archives.
> 
> Do you see any errors in the XferLOG file?  Any output/errors
> from the script will go there.  You will need to look carefully
> near the top of the file.
> 
> Maybe you should use explicit paths in your script (eg: /bin/echo
> and /path/to/smbclient.  BackupPC trims the PATH to a small set of
> values (see $Conf{MyPath}).  I'm not sure if bash will reset the
> PATH when it starts.
> 
> Craig
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> To:   Michael Pellegrino <mikep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Doug Lytle <support@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:   backuppc-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:08:51 -0400
> Subj: Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: Windows Messaging
> 
> Michael,
> 
> This is what I do.  I have a text file with the message to be displayed 
> to the end user and I use the following commands within a shell script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/cat /backupdata/conf/popmsg.txt | /usr/bin/smbclient -U BackupPC -M $1
> 
> This works quite nicely.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> Michael Pellegrino wrote:
> 
> >Craig Barratt <cbarratt <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>    #!/bin/csh -f
> >>
> >>Finally, you might want to change it so the host name gets passed to
> >>the script:
> >>
> >>    $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}     = '/usr/local/backuppc/smbnetsend $host';
> >>
> >>and then use $1 (first argument) in your script to get the hostname.
> >>    
> 
> 
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