Re: [webmin-l] problem getting file system backup to send results email

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 9/Aug/2006 07:25 Douglas Denholm wrote ..
> I am a newbie so bear with me. 
>  
> I am running Webmin 1.240 on a SUSE Linux system. 
>  
> I am not running any email servers (POP or SMTP) on the system. 
>  
> I implemented an automatic file system backup on a given directory tree
> (once weekly) and I entered an email address for the backup results. I
> set the file system backup configuration radio button to Read User Mail
> Module. 
>  
> I then went to the Read User Mail module and set it to use an external
> STMP server (with appropriate login, password, etc.). I _am_ able to use
> Read User Mail to compose and successfully send emails. 
>  
> But when I tell the file system backup module to "save and backup", I do
> not get any email sent to the address I specified. 
>  
> Any suggestions of how I can get the email to work would be appreciated.

Email doesn't actually get sent unless a scheduled backup is run, not when
you start it from the browser. You can start a scheduled backup manually
by running the command /etc/webmin/fsdump/backup.pl XXXX as root at the shell
prompt, where XXXX is the backup ID number.

 - Jamie