Ignore my previous message - it made no sense - comes from getting up
at 4AM for Black Friday sale...
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 09:26:26 -0500 on Friday, November 27, 2009:
> Craig Barratt wrote at about 09:51:53 -0800 on Thursday, November 26, 2009:
> > Jeffrey writes:
> >
> > > As many know, I use rsync in DumpPreUserCmd to run my shadowmountrsync
> > > routine on the remote client. This routine has many legitimate reasons
> > > for not returning success.
> > >
> > > However, the backuppc log often shows on failure:
> > > 2009-11-24 11:00:04 DumpPreUserCmd returned error
> status 512... exiting
> > >
> > > I don't understand the 512 status since the rsync man pages lists
> > > return codes as 0-35. So what does 512 mean?
> >
> > It's 256 * exitStatus, so the exit status is 2. The lower 8 bits are
> > the signal number, if any, that killed the process.
>
> Thanks Craig...
>
> So, I guess if I want to return the exit code of the remote process I
> am running (shadowmountrsync) then I should have shadowmountrsync
> write the exit code to stdout. Then capture that as the output of the
> remote rsync command and return it.
>
> The only challenge is that commands like DumpPreUserCmd are executed
> directly without a shell which means I have to either wrap it in a
> script or in some "bash -c" ugliness.
>
> Which brings to mind a suggestion...
> Why not execute these commands in a shell.
> They are not run that frequently (once per day per host) so the
> overhead of launching a shell would be low while the benefit would be
> high in terms of flexibility.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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