[Box Backup] Mac NotifySysadmin.sh customizations

[James O'Gorman]

Hi Eric,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:02:07PM -0500, Eric Cronin wrote:
>  /usr/sbin/sendmail (which is the postfix variety) is less than reliable on a 
>  stock osx install I've found, even before most ISPs started blocking 
>  outgoing port 25...  About 75% of the time alerts sit in the mailq until I 
>  "postfix start" on my laptop.
> 
>  The script works fine if the osx box is more of a "server" (and then has a 
>  unfiltered IP, configured hostname, postfix running for retries etc).

Gotcha.

> > When you say Growl notification, do you mean the MailMe action?
> > Otherwise I'm not sure it would be much use, unless someone were
> > watching the console 24x7 :-)
> 
>  For desktops/laptops running boxbackup someone's watching the console pretty 
>  regularly, especially if the growl setting is not to auto-dismiss alerts 
>  from bbackupd...  Doesn't make sense all the time or as a default, but is 
>  nice when the conditions are there.

Makes sense. I'll have a look later and see if I can knock something up.
It should be pretty straightforward, although it will add yet another
OS-dependent script into the distribution...

James