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

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

ma...@eh... 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 <mi...@so...>
From: Doug Lytle <su...@dr...>
Cc:   bac...@li...
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.
>>