Thank you very much! It almost works. Turns out that what I actually 
need isn't the client name as I had thought, but the address of the 
client (the DNS name). More accurately, what I really need is the name 
under which the client is known to Nagios - which fortunately I can 
easily derive from the DNS name.

Do you have any ideas for that? If not, I can probably come up with a 
workaround on my own.

Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 31.10.2008 11:06, Kevin Keane wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to find a way to pass the client name to the run_before 
>> script, but I can't see a way to actually make it work. Apparently, 
>> variable expansion is not available for the Run Before Job?
>>
>> In my JobDef, I have the line:
>>
>>   Run Before Job = "/usr/local/sbin/myscript ${Client}"
>>
>> The script executes for each backup job, but always receives the literal 
>> ${Client} instead of the actual client name.
>>
>> Is there a way to make this work?
>>     
>
> Probably... try "%c" instead of the $-Syntax (which would, if at all, 
> only work in a counter), as per 
> http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#character_substitution
>
> Arno
>
>   
>> Thanks!
>>     
>
>   


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