"Rein" writes:
> This is likely due to me not speaking Perl, but what's the best way to
> achieve <subj>?
>
> Here's how it works for me now -- is there a better way?
>
> I'm using an expect script to shut the computer down after the backup
> completes, but I don't want the output of that script to end up in the
> transfer log, because it contains the password.
>
> For some reason expect's own "fork ... disconnect" routine doesn't work
> when BackupPC executes the script as DumpPostUserCmd.
>
> Setting
> $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = 'shutd.sh $host > /dev/null';
>
> didn't work also -- the '> /dev/null' part is passed as an argument to the
> 'shutd.sh' script.
>
> So right now I'm using a wrapper script that takes the hostname as an
> argument and calls the original expect script, directing it's output to
> /dev/null.
To improve security, BackupPC doesn't use a shell to execute commands
- it forks and execs the commands directly. So any shell constructs,
like redirection, don't work. Your approach of using a wrapper shell
script it the right one.
Craig
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