Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
John Rouillard wrote at about 14:50:10 + on Monday, December 13, 2010: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:52:16PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 22:46:20 -0500 on Saturday, December > > 11, 2010: > > > As some of you may know, I have been successfully a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-13 Thread John Rouillard
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:52:16PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 22:46:20 -0500 on Saturday, December 11, > 2010: > > As some of you may know, I have been successfully adding perl script > > to the machine config files. > > > > However, I just noticed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 22:46:20 -0500 on Saturday, December 11, 2010: > As some of you may know, I have been successfully adding perl script > to the machine config files. > > However, I just noticed that if I add a system command using > backquotes, then I get an error of form:

[BackupPC-users] Why does executing a system command inside a config.pl cause backuppc to fail?

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
As some of you may know, I have been successfully adding perl script to the machine config files. However, I just noticed that if I add a system command using backquotes, then I get an error of form: dump failed: Can't read PC's config file: Couldn't open /etc/BackupPC/pc/mymacine.pl.pl: