Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC

2010-01-28 Thread Pascal Bourdais
Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:18:24 +0100,
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se a écrit :

Hi,

 
 I wanted to test the mail function with BackupPC as described on 
 http://webserveraddress/backuppc/html/doc/BackupPC.html#step_8__checking_email_delivery,
  
 but got the below error message. I installed BackupPC according to the 
 CentOS-BackupPC wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC.
 
 Could anyone offer any insights on this? I though the backuppc-account was a 
 nologin (or some such) account, thus a su isn't possible.
 
 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su backuppc

su - backuppc

 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
 /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 
 (backuppc)
 Please su backuppc first
 BackupPC::Lib-new failed
 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]#
 
 Thanks for any help or explanations.


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC

2010-01-28 Thread Pascal Bourdais
Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:37:27 +0100,
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se a écrit :

 -Original Message-
 From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se]
 Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:20 PM
 To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support'
 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr]
 Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM
 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
 
 su - backuppc
 
 Already tried that, same thing happens:
 
 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc
 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
 /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150
 (backuppc)
 Please su backuppc first
 BackupPC::Lib-new failed
 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]#
 
 
 Did some thinking and got it working, sort of...
 
 r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc
 backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ whoami
 backuppc
 backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u 
 sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
 Sending test email using /bin/mail -t -f sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se

You have to use sendmail, and not mail. In my config : 
$Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'

And sendmail :
/usr/sbin/sendmail - /usr/local/exim/bin/exim

 /bin/mail: invalid option -- t
 Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
 [-- sendmail-options ...]
mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
 backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$
 
 Now what? I don't see any t mentioned in man mail... Or am I getting 
 slightly blind here? 8-S
 


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