Kai Grunau wrote:

> is there someone who could send me a /etc/init.d/backuppc script  
> file for
> OpenSuse 10.3 2.6.22.17-0.1-default i686
>
> When I try to start backuppc I get the error :
> -----------
>> /etc/init.d/backuppc  start
>
> Starting backuppc: ok.
> /home/backuppc/bin/BackupPC: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of  
> 1000
> (backuppc)
> Please su backuppc first
> BackupPC::Lib->new failed
> -------------------

Your init.d script tries to start BackupPC as root, while it should  
run as the backuppc user. It is started in my init.d script (on CentOS  
4) as follows in the start() function:

        daemon --user backuppc /opt/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d

Did you create this init.d script yourself? If you installed using the  
source distribution then configure.pl should have created an init.d  
script for you as init.d/linux-backuppc. I copied that script to /etc/ 
init.d/backuppc and ran chmod 755 on it. Worked just fine.

Nils Breunese.

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