[Bacula-users] Win32 ClientRunBeforeJob

[Phil S. <al...@ca...>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:35:50PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:31, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > (Which reminds me, I need to revisit getting my Win32 ClientRunBeforeJob
> > scripts working with the native client.)
> 
> Yes, please let us know what your experiences are -- that is something
> very important to me.



OK, checking this again, it appears it works, with the following provisos:

1.  The ClientRunBeforeJob directive should specify a .bat file which
    runs the actual client-side commands, rather than trying to run (for
    example) regedit /e directly.

2.  The batch file should explicitly 'exit 0' on successful completion.

3.  The path to the hatch file should be specified in Unix form:

       ClientRunBeforeJob = "c:/bacula/bin/systemstate.bat"

    rather than DOS/Windows form:

       ClientRunBeforeJob = "c:\bacula\bin\systemstate.bat"

This last condition appears to be why it was failing before; I had
assumed that since I was running a child from a Win32 native app, I
should use Win32 native path format.  This appears not to be the case.


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