Hi, just installed backuppc-3.1.0 from scratch on a RHEL4 system.
I ran into two problems with configure.pl:
1) it's hardcoded for #!/bin/perl ; this may not be worth fixing,
but many (most?) systems put perl in /usr/bin (or god knows where else).
one way is to start under #!/bin/sh and try to find perl in the PATH,
then re-start yourself under perl.
There's some perl faq entry about this that i can't find right now.
Again, not real high priority.
in any event, I'm thinking a better default is #!/usr/bin/perl.
2) if you say --no-fhs, and you're doing a new install, configure bombs
with a mkdir error, because it never initializes the configdir. See below for
a screendump.
I hardcoded some defaults next to where it sets defaults for fhs, and it works.
[root BackupPC-3.1.0]# diff configure.pl configure.pl.danno
1c1
< #!/bin/perl
---
> #!/usr/bin/perl
236a237,241
> } else {
> $Conf{TopDir} ||= "/data/BackupPC";
> $Conf{ConfDir} ||= $opts{"config-dir"} || "/usr/local/BackupPC/etc";
> $Conf{InstallDir} ||= "/usr/local/BackupPC";
> $Conf{LogDir} ||= $opts{"log-dir"} || "/usr/local/BackupPC/log";
238a244
>
thanks
danno
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[root BackupPC-3.1.0]# ./configure.pl --install-dir=/backuppc --no-fhs
--compress-level=2 --data-dir=/backuppc/data --log-dir=/backuppc/log
--html-dir=/backuppc/web/backuppc --html-dir-url=/backuppc
--cgi-dir=/backuppc/web/cgi-bin --config-dir=/backuppc/conf
Is this a new installation or upgrade for BackupPC? If this is
an upgrade please tell me the full path of the existing BackupPC
configuration file (eg: /etc/BackupPC/config.pl). Otherwise, just
hit return.
--> Full path to existing main config.pl []?
I found the following locations for these programs:
bzip2 => /usr/bin/bzip2
cat => /bin/cat
df => /bin/df
gtar/tar => /bin/gtar
gzip => /bin/gzip
hostname => /bin/hostname
nmblookup =>
par2 =>
perl => /usr/bin/perl
ping => /bin/ping
rsync => /usr/bin/rsync
sendmail => /usr/sbin/sendmail
smbclient =>
split => /usr/bin/split
ssh/ssh2 => /usr/bin/ssh
--> Are these paths correct? [y]?
Please tell me the hostname of the machine that BackupPC will run on.
--> BackupPC will run on host [OBSCURED]?
BackupPC should run as a dedicated user with limited privileges. You
need to create a user. This user will need read/write permission on
the main data directory and read/execute permission on the install
directory (these directories will be setup shortly).
The primary group for this user should also be chosen carefully.
The data directories and files will have group read permission,
so group members can access backup files.
--> BackupPC should run as user [backuppc]?
Please specify an install directory for BackupPC. This is where the
BackupPC scripts, library and documentation will be installed.
--> Install directory (full path) [/backuppc]?
Please specify a data directory for BackupPC. This is where all the
PC backup data is stored. This file system needs to be big enough to
accommodate all the PCs you expect to backup (eg: at least several GB
per machine).
--> Data directory (full path) [/backuppc/data]?
BackupPC has a powerful CGI perl interface that runs under Apache.
A single executable needs to be installed in a cgi-bin directory.
This executable needs to run as set-uid backuppc, or
it can be run under mod_perl with Apache running as user backuppc.
Leave this path empty if you don't want to install the CGI interface.
--> CGI bin directory (full path) [/backuppc/web/cgi-bin]?
BackupPC's CGI script needs to display various GIF images that
should be stored where Apache can serve them. They should be
placed somewhere under Apache's DocumentRoot. BackupPC also
needs to know the URL to access these images. Example:
Apache image directory: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/BackupPC
URL for image directory: /BackupPC
The URL for the image directory should start with a slash.
--> Apache image directory (full path) [/backuppc/web/backuppc]?
--> URL for image directory (omit http://host; starts with '/') [/backuppc]?
Ok, we're about to:
- install the binaries, lib and docs in /backuppc,
- create the data directory /backuppc/data,
- create/update the config.pl file /config.pl,
- optionally install the cgi-bin interface.
--> Do you want to continue? [y]?
Created /backuppc/data
Created /backuppc/data/pool
Created /backuppc/data/cpool
Created /backuppc/data/pc
Created /backuppc/data/trash
mkdir : No such file or directory at ./configure.pl line 567
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