[BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command be

I wanted to be able to notify a group of people when any backup starts or ends, so I did some googling and found an archived email on this list about how I might do it.

I made a script with the following contents as a test and named it startbkpemail.sh (just used the example name from the post) and added the a line '/usr/local/bin/startbkpemail.sh $host $type'; in the DumpPreUserCmd field in the host config - but it is not executing it. Any suggestions? The permissions on the file are 777 for testing so I know that is not the problem.

#!/bin/sh
#
SUBJECT="Backup for Production Server: $1 has started."
TO="james.beam AT pinnacle1 DOT com"
MESSAGE="/tmp/message.txt"

echo "Server Name: $1" >> $MESSAGE
echo "Backup Type: $2" >> $MESSAGE
echo "" >> $MESSAGE
echo "Confirmation will be sent when backup completes." >> $MESSAGE
echo "" >> $MESSAGE
echo "THIS IS AN AUTOMATED EMAIL" >> $MESSAGE

/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < $MESSAGE
echo "done" >> /tmp/test.txt
rm $MESSAGE

James Beam

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[BackupPC-users] Problem, Backuppc is not executing a defined command before running a backup