e-mail /export script not working since upgrade to 6.40.8

novelty22 · Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:23 pm

Hi,

In all of our customer routers we have scheduled backup scripts that e-mail an /export every X days.
Since the upgrade to 6.40.8 these are no longer working. I get an error about the filename. Email from the router is working otherwise

Here's the export of the script in question

/system script
add name="Create Export and Email" owner=admin policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive source="/e\
    xport file=Customer-Lastname,Firstname\r\
    \n/tool e-mail send to=\"customer_tik@ourdomain.net\" subject=([/system identity get name] . \" Reload Scripts\") file=Cus\
    tomer-Lastname,Firstname.rsc\r\
    \n"

When i run it from the terminal

/export file=Customer-Lastname,Firstname
/tool e-mail send to="customer_tik@ourdomain.net" subject=([/system identity get name] . " Reload Scripts") file=Customer-Lastname,Firstname.rsc

I get the following

ambiguous value of file, more than one possible value matches input

Even if it's the only file present on the router

With quotes around the filename I get

/tool e-mail send to="customer_tik@ourdomain.net" subject=([/system identity get name] . " Rel
oad Scripts") file="Customer-Lastname,Firstname.rsc" 
input does not match any value of file

If i downgrade back to 6.93.3 it works as expected.

Does anyone else have this issue and what can be done to remedy besides downgrading?

sid5632 · Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:38 pm

Try:

file="\"Customer-Lastname,Firstname.rsc\""

on the "/tool e-mail" command.

novelty22 · Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:45 pm

Thanks!

That actually worked

Why would they change this?

I have over 1000 routers that are now no longer backing up and since all of the customer names are different it this will be a challenge to correct.

Is this change maybe reverted in a later version?

sid5632 · Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:49 pm

Is this change maybe reverted in a later version?

Apparently not. It's still the same on 6.43rc56

The best thing is not to use a comma in the file name in the first place. Use a '-' or a '_' character, or similar.

Thu Aug 30, 2018 4:05 pm

e-mail tool for quite some time now support multiple file upload (files separated by comma). So it is obvious why your code does not work.

Do not use special synbos in filenames and variable names. Always use quotes for strings and you will not have problems.

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