Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-29 09:00:46 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How
BackupPC finds host when using SSH tunnel?]:
[...]
that is the only logical thing to do. You're saying the
client machine to be backed up is actually named localhost
If you mean client machine name
Hallo Holger,
Thanks for taking time to discuss such stupid questions ;-) with me...
that is the only logical thing to do. You're saying the
client machine to be backed up is actually named localhost
If you mean client machine name = ClientNameAlias, then yes.
(which coincidentally maps
Hello there.
I read the chapter How BackupPC Finds Hosts and I found out that my
hosts don't get found if using the suggested
perl -e 'print(gethostbyname(myhost) ? ok\n : not found\n);'
Thus I'm asking: how does BackupPC ping hosts which actually are
accessed passing through an ssh tunnel?
Il 28.04.09 20:47, Matthias Meyer matthias.me...@gmx.li ha scritto:
With ssh you have a tunnel to a port of your local host. You can't ping
this port.
What I do is to change backuppc's ping command $Conf{PingCmd} to
ssh -p port user@localhost whoami
where:
port = the port where ssh
Hi,
Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-28 22:55:49 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How
BackupPC finds host when using SSH tunnel?]:
[...]
I *didn't* change
the default PingCmd and it still works on my client hosts! I read that pings
are successful... Thus my question was about how it comes
