On 05/18/17 17:30, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Vladislav Kurz > <vladislav.k...@webstep.net <mailto:vladislav.k...@webstep.net>> wrote: > > Hello all, > > First of all big thanks to all developers of BackupPC, it is really a > very nice and useful backup tool. > > I use DumpPreUserCmd (and similar options) to run mysqldump, or make > snapshots of filesystems before backup. I would like to have the output > of these mailed to me instead of being just logged. > > > Probably not the direction you were thinking but why not create a > systemd service file for DumpPreUserCmd to start? > > I'm assuming you're using a system which uses systemd...
Hello, I have many systems, and most of them are older then systemd (so using classic init). And on those that do, I'm sometimes pulling my hair out because of systemd. But I do not want to rant about systemd here. I know I have to learn new things all my life. > If you prepend the command in the service file with a hyphen the unit > will exit cleanly even if the command failed... > > ExecStart=-/command/to/run This is not exactly what I want. I can ignore the failure by setting backuppc: UserCmdCheckStatus=0 What I want is to get any output of the script by mail. Whether it fails or not. I thought it would be more elegant if this could be done by backuppc itself than adding something like "2>&1 | mail root" to all predump scripts. -- S pozdravem Vladislav Kurz Centrála: Celní 17/5, 63900 Brno, CZ Web: http://www.webstep.net E-Mail: podp...@webstep.net Tel: 840 840 700, +420 548 214 711 Obchodní podmínky: https://zkrat.to/op ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/