On Monday 05 March 2007 16:12, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 05 March 2007 07:47, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > >> Tim Schaab wrote: > >>> Howdy, > >>> > >>> What could be preventing a FD from sending the OK status to the > >>> Director after a backup? > >> > >> I don't know how important this is, but I often almost forget to change > >> the "Messages" resource at the bottom of the -fd config file. > > > > Modifying the messages resource is "critical" if you want to see error > > messages. When the FD encounters a "serious" error, it typically sends > > the error message to where you have specified (or to the default) in the > > messages destination(s) then hangs up on the Director. > > But it would not affect his original problem, I'm guessing (backup never > seems to receive success response or something like that).
Correct, the only thing it would change is that *possibly* he would get an error message rather than a silent failure. If some router is timing out the DIR <-> FD connection, then no message will show up on the Director, but the FD could still be configured to log or email it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
