redirect savepnpc output to group details?

[nepomuk]

If I run a batch script via savepnpc on an NT4 machine the ouput of the script gets lost!

how can I redirect the output of the script, so that I can see the result in the Nwadmin Group Details?

For Example if I use echo in the savepnpc it will show up!
precmd: "echo hello";

 

[esserc]

Remember: You can only see the output of the pre command, not the post command.

 

[nepomuk]

That would be enough!
lets say my precmd is "dir", how can I redirect the output of dir to the savegroup details?

 

[esserc]

The entire output is sent to the server. The savegroup details is truncated a bit, and the savegroup completion report is also truncated, but not as much. If you change the backup command to 'savepnpc -vvvv' you should get it all. In 6.0 and below that works, but I think 6.1 still truncates it.

 

[jkalbus]

But you must be aware, that networker treats all output as WARNING - so you will never have a SUCCEDED status, always a Warning.
So you must always check that backup if it really succeded or got wrinings due to other errors.

Johanes

 

[esserc]

Not true. Networker read the exit status (or return code), not the output.

 

[oonal]

I have done the job as following...
I have created two batch files. Middat1.cmd and Midday2.cmd.

Midday1.cmd has the following inside
@echo off
rd 123zz321 >nul
md 123zz321 >nul
for /f "tokens=1,2" %%a in ('dir ^| find /i "123zz321"') do echo MIDDAY Backup Started at %%a %%b
net send oonal "RDS3403 MIDDAY Backup Started..." > nul

Midday2.cmd has the following inside
@echo off
rd 123zz321 >nul
md 123zz321 >nul
for /f "tokens=1,2" %%a in ('dir ^| find /i "123zz321"') do echo MIDDAY Backup Finished at %%a %%b
echo #####
net send oonal "RDS3403 MIDDAY Backup Finised..." > nul


And the Midday.res file in c:\program files\nsr\res has the following lines in it.
type: savepnpc;
precmd: "Midday1.cmd >> Backup.log";
pstcmd: "Midday2.cmd >> Backup.log";
#End

All the files Midday1.cmd, Midday2.cmd and Backup.log reside in C:\winnt\system32 folder.

It works.

Here is the Backup.log file details.
MIDDAY Backup Started at 09/09/03 16:05
MIDDAY Backup Finished at 09/09/03 16:08
#####

Hope this helps to anyone who needs this info.
;-)