>[...] how do I introduce a >delay between the wake command being issued and BackupPc continuing?
Rather than a fixed delay, you might want to try using Net::Ping to poll the client until you get a positive answer. Possibly with some sleep time between retries, and a long(ish) timeout set to whatever you think is the boot duration of the client plus some fudge factor to account for network irregularities, etc. (say, 2 x the typical boot time, which you'd measure first). Bernardo |---------+------------------------------------------> | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ceforge.net | | | | | | | | | 01/17/2006 10:11 AM | | | | |---------+------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> | | cc: | | bcc: | | Subject: [BackupPC-users] Wake-on-lan | >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I am trying to get wake-on-lan working for my installation. I tried '$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = "/usr/share/wol.sh $host";' and this didn't work for me. Has anyone else had success with this? I have gotten as far as implementing the Net::Wake perl module from within BackupPC_dump perl script. This correctly wakes the PC but I still get a 'Host not found' error message. I assume this is because whilst the PC has woken it has not connected to the network in time for BackupPC to find it. In short am I approaching this the right way? If I am how do I introduce a delay between the wake command being issued and BackupPc continuing? Do you require the scripts I am running? Cheers Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/