Running the mailback script

[Kayners]

Hello,

I’ve been trying to get the mailback script to go, no joy. Here’s what I’ve been getting:

Xserve:/usr/sbin honus$ ls -l mail*
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 4218 20 Oct 15:42 mailback

Xserve:/usr/sbin honus$ sudo mailback -r /Volumes/Xmirror/mailbackup
Password:
sudo: unable to exec /usr/sbin/mailback: No such file or directory

The instructions said to make the script executable, so I chmodded an x in there for root, thinking that combined with sudo would be enough.

In need of a clue,

Steve.

[bustthis]

chmod 755 /usr/sbin/mailback

[Kayners]

Tried that, now it’s -rwxr-xr-x, and I’m getting the same error.

Steve.

[Kayners]

Got it running. I opened the files with pico and they looked like garbage. Seems I saved them in a non-UNIX format. Resaved as UNIX with BBEdit Lite and now they run.

However, the mailback script doesn’t dump anything into it’s folders, though (ODBack appears to work OK). Is that because there are no files to backup? I have a few user test emails that should get saved, but there’s no sign of them. Are the user mailboxes stored elsewhere? I’m running IMAP.

Steve.

[Kayners]

Nevermind… I was running in doofus-mode.

Did -r for restore instead of -b for backup.

Old dog, new tricks.

Steve.

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