Re: How to receive job status changes notifications?

Hello Konstantin,

On 9/29/25 11:04, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> Hello, I'm writing a GUI around Bacula (yeah, another one), and my
> problem is I want to receive every job status change, e.g. if it's
> running, failed, etc, to display to user interactively.
> 
> After digging far and wide, I figured the only way to do this is by
> changing `bacula-dir.conf` to have:
> 
>      Messages {
>        Name = Daemon
>        append = "/tmp/dir-messages-named-pipe" = all, events, debug
>      }
> 
> Per my understanding, this should send everything to
> /tmp/dir-messages-named-pipe. I know for a fact job status changes are
> part of the logs, because if you launch `bconsole` (assuming you have
> `console = all` option) and execute `messages`, you see job status
> changes info.

I'm not sure what you mean by job status, the messages command will
display job messages, not job status change. (Running to Waiting, or Cancel,
...).
> Yet somehow, even though it works for console, I never see that info
> among messages coming to /tmp/dir-messages-named-pipe!

I'm not sure that the Daemon message resource is configured to get your
Job messages, double check that. After, each message is sent via STDIO
and might take time to end up written in your socket. Perhaps the syslog
destination would be more appropriate, and syslog is very flexible for
that.

Hope it helps!
Best Regards,
Eric