On 09/01 12:30 , Craig Barratt wrote:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes:
> > on a backuppc 2.1.1 installation which I have, e-mail alerts about hosts not
> > being backed up, are sent to the user which is listed as owning that host in
> > the 'hosts' file. so for instance:
> >
> > # grep pc32 hosts
> > pc32 0 backuppc
> >
> > the user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' will get alerts about pc32 not being backed
> > up.
> >
> > the problem is; that I want alerts to go to an account called
> > 'backup-alerts'. so I set:
> > $Conf{EMailAdminUserName} = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> >
> > but mail messages continue going to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] user!
> > I can probably fix this in the MTA on the smarthost, given some work; but it
> > would be much better if it could be cured on the program side.
<snip>
> So you need to copy the value of $Conf{EMailNoBackupRecentMesg},
> $Conf{EMailOutlookBackupMesg} and $Conf{EMailNoBackupEverMesg}
> from lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm to the per-PC config.pl and replace
> $user with "$user-alerts". If this is true of all your hosts
> you could add these settings to the global config.pl file.
ok. I understand. makes sense now.
thanks for the advice!
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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
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