On 05/09/12 19:24, Christian Manal wrote:
> On 05.09.2012 12:43, Alex Lucas wrote:
>> Dears,
>>
>> Is there a way to run a complex command or even a script on a client?
>>
>> So far I have tried two ways and failed:
>> 1) when a command (e.g. in "ClientRunBeforeJob") has something like
>> "echo test > /tmp/test.out" bacula runs it on the client as "echo" as
>> command and the rest as the argument. i.e. there is no /tmp/test.out on
>> the client
>> 2) when I run "test.sh" which is in the PATH on the bacula director it
>> fails, I guess because there is no identical script on the client.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> Hi,
>
> all the Run-statements execute what is defined directly, without a
> shell. So output redirection and stuff won't work unless you do
> something like this:
>
>    ClientRunBeforeJob = "/bin/bash -c 'echo foo >/tmp/foo.out'"
Thank you, this does it. One related question: is because I have a few
commands to run, is there a way to make the commands split across
several lines (for readability) ?

e.g.

ClientRunBeforeJob = "/bin/bash -c 'command one
                      command two'"

doesn't seem to work.

>
> If you want to call a script, you'd have to define the absolute path or
> a relative one from the executing daemon's working directory.
>
>
> Regards,
> Christian Manal
>
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