On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:30 -0400, Thomas Maguire wrote:
> I recently installed BackupPC 2.1.2 on Linux Mandrake 10.0. I edited
> the configure.pl and hosts files for one PC to test the operation of
> the software.
>
> The LOG and backuppc file system show that the PC is being backed up.
>
> My problem is with the BackupPC_Admin script. I changed the httpd
> software to start as the backuppc user and removed the setuid
> permission from the BackupPC_Admin script. I also setup the htpasswd
> and the system prompts me for and accepts my username/password. The
> test.cgi script in the /var/www/cgi-bin runs without error but when I
> try to execute the BackupPC_Admin script I receive the following
> message:
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Software error:
> Can't locate object method "register_cleanup" via package
> "Apache::RequestRec" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CGI.pm line 353.
>
> For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), giving
> this error message and the time and date of the error.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> I have no perl experience but after some searching was able to locate
> the register_cleanup subroutine in compat.pm instead of the
> RequestRec.pm. I am starting to think that the mod_perl software is
> not configured properly but was hoping for some advice from the user
> list as how best to proceed.
>
> rpm -q returns: perl-5.8.3-5mdk,
> apache2-mod_perl-2.0.48_1.99_11-3mdk
>
> $ENV{"MOD_PERL"}; returns: MOD_PERL = mod_perl/1.99_11
Unless you expect to spend a lot of time in the web interface,
configure it to run as a normal cgi instead of under mod_perl - at
least until the Linux distributions get everything up to a 2.x
release. You can probably make mod_perl work but it may take days
to save yourself a fraction of a second per click.
--
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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