Hallo Holger,

Thanks for taking time to discuss such "stupid questions" ;-) with me...

> that is the only logical thing to do. You're saying the 
> client machine to be backed up is actually named "localhost" 

If you mean "client machine name" = "ClientNameAlias", then yes.

> (which coincidentally maps to the BackupPC server's loopback 
> address), so that is what is pinged. If you said the host 

Well, actually the ping command pings $host, which I think is *not*
$ClientNameAlias. If it's *indeed* the same thing, then I understand
what is being pinged ;-)

> name was actually "remotehost", wouldn't you expect that to be pinged?
> 
> That said, it really depends on your PingCmd. If you set, for example,
> 
>       $Conf {PingCmd} = '/usr/bin/ssh -ql administrator 
> remotehost.com ping -c 1 10.0.0.254';
> 
> that may or may not work, because the user name 
> 'administrator' suggests you're talking to a Windoze machine. 
> But if you've got sshd, you might have ping, and it might 
> produce sane output and exit code ...

I stress it again: I *didn't* change the default PingCmd, it still looks
like "$pingPath -c 1 $host" and I get "Pings to remotehost1 have
succeeded 12 consecutive times." and backups are working!

Regards,
Flavio Boniforti.

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