hi, You think I would have run across this with all the Linux systems I administer but I had not. You are correct systemctl stop worked.
Thank you. Mark > Mark, > > Perhaps systemd is being used to run BackupPC? > > What output do you get from: > > systemctl status backuppc > > If it shows as active/running, then the correct command to stop BackupPC > is: > > systemctl stop backuppc > > > Craig > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM Mark Maciolek <m...@sr.unh.edu> wrote: > >> hi, >> >> Running BackupPC v4.3.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I want to upgrade to 4.4.0 >> but I can't get the backuppc process to stop. I can do >> /etc/init.d/backuppc and it starts again. If I do kill -9 <proc id> it >> also just restarts. >> >> I have several other BackupPC servers and yet this is the only one that >> does this. >> >> Does anyone have a clue to where I should start troubleshooting this >> issue? >> >> Mark >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/