On 18/04/17 21:19, bacula-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:15:37 +0200
> From: Francisco Javier Funes Nieto <esencia AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 7.4.x Device Resource, Alert Command
>       documentation and usage
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> Did you check if the mtx package was installed on the system ?
>
> J.
>
> 2017-04-18 8:27 GMT+02:00 Charles <c AT charlesmatkinson DOT org>:
>
>> How should the sample Alert Command using tapeinfo be configured?
>>
>> In the Bacula Main Reference 7.4.3 (18 June 2016).pdf", section 18.3
>> "Device Resource" shows a sample Alert Command:
>>
>>     Alert Command = "sh -c ?tapeinfo -f %c | grep TapeAlert?"
>>
>> That was copied and pasted into the Bacula conf but generated:
>>
>> Alert: -f: 1: -f: ?tapeinfo: not found
>> 3997 Bad alert command: sh -c ?tapeinfo -f /dev/sg5 | grep TapeAlert?:
>> ERR=Child exited with code 127.
>>
>> After changing the tapeinfo to /usr/sbin/tapeinfo the error messages
>> were similar.
>>
>> After changing the ? characters to ' characters the error messages were
>> similar.
>>
>> The difficulty was worked around by using an external script to simplify
>> the conf:
>>
>>      Alert Command = "/usr/local/sbin/tapealert-for-bacula.sh"
>>
>> How should the sample command be configured?

Thanks Fransico

The mtx package is installed.  At a command prompt ...

     tapeinfo -f /dev/sg5 | grep TapeAlert

... runs without error as does:

     sh -c 'tapeinfo -f /dev/sg5 | grep TapeAlert'

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