Re: Amcheck not emailing
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:49:31AM -0400, Thom Paine wrote: For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keeping quiet. You will only get mail from amcheck -m if it has encountered some errors: Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any errors are detected. (amcheck manpage) - amdump runs the backup and sends out its usual report about the run. Kind regards, Martin.
Re: Amcheck not emailing
At 11:49 22/10/2002 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. You'll only get a mail if there's a problem detected during amcheck. Regards Martin A. Brooks - I/O, I/O, it's off to disk we go, A bit or byte, to read or write, I/O, I/O, I/O..
Re: Amcheck not emailing
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keeping quiet. You will only get mail from amcheck -m if it has encountered some errors: Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any errors are detected. (amcheck manpage) - amdump runs the backup and sends out its usual report about the run. Oh, well then. I thought it would email with an okay similar to the amcheck DailySet1. Thanks. -- -=/Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 Up: 12:19pm up 3 days, 23:55, 1 user, load average: 1.36, 1.25, 1.20 Registered Linux User #214499 http://counter.li.org
Re: Amcheck not emailing
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:20:15PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any errors are detected. (amcheck manpage) Oh, well then. I thought it would email with an okay similar to the amcheck DailySet1. You can get that beheviour if you want: just leave out the -m flag and pipe amcheck's output to mail. Or let cron send you mail about the output of the cron job. But why be bothered by another email when everything is fine? ;-) Greetings, Martin.
Re: Amcheck not emailing
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:09, Martin A. Brooks wrote: At 11:49 22/10/2002 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. You'll only get a mail if there's a problem detected during amcheck. Regards Thanks. -- -=/Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 Up: 12:20pm up 3 days, 23:56, 1 user, load average: 1.43, 1.31, 1.22 Registered Linux User #214499 http://counter.li.org
Re: Amcheck not emailing
--On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:20:15 -0400 Thom Paine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keeping quiet. You will only get mail from amcheck -m if it has encountered some errors: Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any errors are detected. (amcheck manpage) - amdump runs the backup and sends out its usual report about the run. Oh, well then. I thought it would email with an okay similar to the amcheck DailySet1. Thanks. If you want it to send you an 'ok' message, then don't use '-m'. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Amcheck not emailing
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:49, Thom Paine wrote: I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. Anyone know where I should start to look at trouble shoot this? Make sure the mailto: line in amanda.conf is to you? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
