Il 17/11/2010 08:32, Daniel Mueller ha scritto:

> I'm backing up a host behind a router/firewall which in general works fine.
>
> The firewall forwards only the ssh port and blocks ping requests. So I
> tried to set Set  to something like
>
> $sshPath -l root $host /bin/true
>
> Running this manually (as user backuppc) correctly returns 0 on success
> 255 when the host can't be reached. But backuppc complains that pings to
> host have failed?! Any idea why this won't work?
That command lets you login as root to the remote machine and execute 
"/bin/true" there.

You need to ping the remote machine _from_ the server but the firewall 
blocks you.

Set PingCmd simply to "/bin/true" (and hope the remote host keeps 
working fine)

HTH

gc :-)

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