Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request - Message to user of machine being backed up

[<ma...@eh...>]

Thanks for the replies - I knew about the $host, and that is what I want
evenutally, but there is something else stopping this from working. Even when I
put in the full path, this does not work. Like I said before, I can run the
alert_user.sh from the command line as the backuppc user and it works just like
it should - I immediatly get a popup with the correct message.

Has anybody been able to make this work?

Thanks - 

Matk

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

> ma...@eh... writes:
> 
> > Trying to send the user a popup message that a backup is about to start, I
> put
> > this line in my conf.pl:
> > 
> > $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'alert_user.sh';
> 
> You need an explicit path:
> 
>     $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/bin/alert_user.sh';
> 
> Note that you can also pass the host name so that your script
> can do the right thing for different hosts, eg:
> 
>     $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/bin/alert_user.sh $host';
> 
> Craig
>