Mark Sopuch wrote: > Hi, ... again (and so soon) > > Aside from wanting to off-handedly mention that it'd be great to have > a 'description' field to annotate hosts in the Hosts Editor I moreso > wanted to inform others that my problem of how to control mailout for > some users and no mailout for others (in a shared workstation > scenario) is solved now. Apparently I was a bit hasty in my celebration. It is only my hand-rolled dump script mailer that currently receives such benefits of putting a list of names in the 'user' field. Where access to the host is concerned I still need to redundantly have the usernames in moreUsers to gain access. And yet another reason to not celebrate my so-called discovery in BackupPC is in now not having a primary user for BackupPC to mail backup reminders to because BackupPC will more than likely read user1,user2 list in the user field as a single string then try to mail there and fail. Regardless, BackupPCs indifference to a userlist in the users field is pretty much confirmed in my inability to access the host when I have such a setup. user1,user2 is not a valid user or mail address.
Am I safe to suggest that the extension of the user field to support a list of usernames (primary users) would be useful to others in that mainly it would allow those named users to receive backup reminder mails instead of requiring nth degree mailgroup management at the mail server just to use a group to hold multiple mail recipients in the user field BackupPC uses for backup reminders? As mentioned, I do all of this due to the hosts being shared workstations. > > Where I previously used the user field as the mailout 'group' field > and moreUsers to control user access, I now use the user field > explicitly to manage users that should get mail plus access and leave > mailgroups out of it altogether. moreUsers provides the additional > access without the mailouts on those names as usual. Managing custom > mailgroups was getting unwieldy I must say given the number of people > that chose to opt out of post-dump notification mails. As I said, unwieldy. > > Basically, the BackupPC docs don't imply the user field to support a > list of users but a quick test proved it is supported for providing > access and mailout on those names ... and I'm loving it! Scratch that, my tests were obviously suspect though I can still live in hope of the above striking a sweet chord with someone that can make a difference. > > That's all, thanks > > -- Mark > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
