brodul's questions

When I run the BackupCatalog job I get the following error

04-Mar 21:04 storo-dir JobId 62: shell command: run BeforeJob "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"
04-Mar 21:04 storo-dir JobId 62: BeforeJob: pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "bacula" failed: FATAL:  no PostgreSQL user name specified in startup packet
04-Mar 21:04 storo-dir JobId 62: Error: Runscript: BeforeJob returned non-zero status=1. ERR=Child exited with code 1
04-Mar 21:04 storo-dir JobId 62: Error: Bacula storo-dir 5.0.3 (04Aug10): 04-Mar-2012 21:04:35

Ok, so I looked at the script:

• the first parameter should be the name of the database
• the second the user
• the third the password
• the fourth the address of the database

but if I run the script in bacula with all the parameters. I get:

04-Mar 21:23 storo-dir JobId 63: BeforeJob: Can't find your catalog (bacula) in director configuration

Can some one help me and tell me whats wrong?

Is there a more efficient way to retrieve the MAC address of a NIC in Linux?

This works:

ip link show dev eth0 | awk ' /link\/ether/ { print $2 }'

but can it be found via something like:

cat /sys/net/something