Good bad or indifferent (and y'all probably know of a better way to have done this), I fixed this. I issued these two commands and the backup started working:
chown backuppc -R /data chgrp backuppc -R /data Arch -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arch Willingham Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BackupPC-users] mkdir /data/BackupPC: Permission denied problemwith BackupPC 3.0 with Fedora FC7 I have installed BackupPC 3.0 on several FC7 computers all without to much finagling. Lat night, I installed it on another one and had many problems. I finally got it running and can get to the BackupPC web page. I have created a host profile for the computer. If I tell it to start a backup, it says its doing it it if you click on the "Log file" link, you get a message saying "Can't open log file ". I tried to ding into it further and when I read cat /var/log/BackupPC/LOG, I see tones of messages like this: 2007-09-29 03:21:36 Next wakeup is 2007-09-29 04:00:00 2007-09-29 03:21:50 User backuppc requested backup of bidfaxsrv (bidfaxsrv) 2007-09-29 03:21:51 bidfaxsrv: mkdir /data/BackupPC: Permission denied at /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump line 193 2007-09-29 03:22:52 User backuppc requested backup of bidfaxsrv (bidfaxsrv) 2007-09-29 03:22:53 bidfaxsrv: mkdir /data/BackupPC: Permission denied at /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump line 193 I tried to compare the directory it mentions to a system that has a working copy and setting permission on that directory but it did not work. In frustration, I enabled all permissions temporarily for mkdir /data/BackupPC and its four subdirectories as follows: drwxrwxrwx 6 backuppc backuppc 4096 2007-09-28 17:54 BackupPC drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 2007-09-28 17:54 cpool drwxrwxrwx 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2007-09-29 03:56 pc drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 2007-09-28 17:54 pool drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 2007-09-28 17:54 trash That did not work either. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Arch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
