Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command before running a backup

2009-02-22 Thread James Beam
That did it - removing the ''; Thanks! James Beam Networking is more than just cables and connectoins... -- Original Message -- From: "Craig Barratt" To: "James Beam" Sent: 2/22/2009 9:11:09 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command before running a backup

2009-02-22 Thread Craig Barratt
James writes: > Executing DumpPreUserCmd: '/usr/local/bin/startbkpemail.sh nxweb05 > incr'; > Exec of '/usr/local/bin/startbkpemail.sh nxweb05 incr'; failed It thinks the command is '/usr/local/bin/startbkpemail.sh nxweb05 incr'; so it is trying to run this executable: '/usr/local/bin/

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC calls NmbLookupFindHostCmd every hour messing up wakeonlan

2009-02-22 Thread David Lasker
I took a closer look at the perl code and I see the cause of the problem. Please note I have no DNS. My PCs use DHCP, but are configured in BackupPC with the host table's DHCP flag set to zero. Here is what I think is happening: 1. BackupPC_dump is called periodically at each WakeupSchedule inter

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command before running a backup

2009-02-22 Thread James Beam
Executing DumpPreUserCmd: '/usr/local/bin/startbkpemail.sh nxweb05 incr'; Exec of '/usr/local/bin/startbkpemail.sh nxweb05 incr'; failed Did not see this before - any ideas on what would cause it to fail? When I run it from the command line it works just fine. James Beam Networking is more t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command before running a backup

2009-02-22 Thread Craig Barratt
James writes: > I wanted to be able to notify a group of people when any backup starts > or ends, so I did some googling and found an archived email on this > list about how I might do it. > > I made a script with the following contents as a test and named > it startbkpemail.sh (just used the exam

[BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command before running a backup

2009-02-22 Thread James Beam
I wanted to be able to notify a group of people when any backup starts or ends, so I did some googling and found an archived email on this list about how I might do it. I made a script with the following contents as a test and named it startbkpemail.sh (just used the example name from the pos