Hi, 07.11.2007 09:41,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:: > Today I switched from using an autochanger to using a single drive and > updated the alert command to sh -c "tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 | grep > 'TapeAlert'" and now bacula complains about a bad alert command, as it > exits with exit code 1. > > Reading the man page of grep I noticed that it exits with exit code 1 if > it does not find the pattern searched for, so I should have had the same > error message with my autochanger, shouldn't I? > > What's going on? Didn't bacula call the alert command with my > autochanger? If it did and grep exited with code 0 it should have found > the pattern and bacula should have noticed my about this, shouldn't it? > > What do you think? Is it a good idea to write a shell script which > exits with error code 0 if grep exits with either 0 or 1 and > with code 1 if grep exits with code 2 (the actual code for an error > in grep)?
I'd start with trying the actual tapealert command you run from Bacula executed from the shell. Run that as the user bacula-sd is run under. There might be permission problems, for example, which don't get reported through the pipe. Arno > Yours sincerely, > > Eric Böse-Wolf > > PS.: Thank you Kern for writing Bacula. Besides being useful it is also > a great toy ;-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
