Les Mikesell writes:
>
> I haven't peeked at the code, but I'd guess that it is checking
> that the programs exist so it can give a reasonable error message
> at startup time instead of waiting until some backup run needs
> it (remember that you can override $Conf{XferMethod} in a per-pc
> config file while inheriting $Conf{SmbClientPath} from the main
> file). You can either change the $Conf{SmbClientPath} entry to
> something like /bin/false or make a dummy executable file for
> /usr/bin/smbclient.
It is only checking it because the main config.pl line (by default)
has:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
Change this to 'rsync' and it will stop chekcing for it. Better yet,
comment the line out in the main config.pl so that it must be defined
in the per host config.pl.
I do that because I use RCS for the config.pl files. If you forget
to check it out after modifying it, it can have undesired and
potentially very bad results. If XferMethod is not defined in the
main config.pl, the backup will simply not work and will not do
anything destructive.
Dan
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