Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows Messaging

[Paul W. <pwe...@co...>]

Thanks for the quick feed back.  I create a sh script with:
echo "This is a TEST"|smbclient -U "BackupPC" -M TYRANT >>/dev/null

and in my main config.pl:
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}     = '/usr/local/backuppc/smbnetsend';

This still does not seem to send the message, although it works from the 
shell..  I am a little puzzled.  Should this not send a message to the same 
machine every time a backup starts?

Thanks, 

Paul


Quoting Craig Barratt <cba...@us...>:

 Paul Weekley writes:
 
 > Where could I add a line to send a netbios/smb message to a
 > workstation when a backup is about to start?  The line would be
 > something like:
 > 
 > "Your machine is now being backed up..blah blah" | smbclient -M $host
 > -U "BackupPC" >> /dev/null
 > 
 > Any ideas?  I thought it may be help on a machine by machine bases to allow
 
 > this as an option.  Just another way let users know when a backup starts
 (and 
 > stops).
 
 See $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}.  Note that BackupPC doesn't execute commands
 with /bin/sh (it calls exec() directly since the security is better).
 Therefore, pipes and redirects won't work inside $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}
 (unless you add /bin/sh -c to the front of your command, and do
 some tricky quoting).
 
 Instead, put your commands in a short shell script, and point
 $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} to your script.
 
 Craig
 



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