Hi, On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:04, Nigel Kendrick<support-li...@petdoctors.co.uk> wrote: > 4) I am running the backup server on CentOS 5.3 and installed backuppc from > the Centos RPM. Ideally I'd like to run the app as the normal 'apache' user > - I read up on a few generic notes about doing this and got to a point where > backuppc wouldn't start properly as it couldn't create the LOG file. I then > went round in circles looking at file permissions before putting things back > the way they were in order to do some more learning. Is there a > simple-to-follow guide for setting up backuppc to not use mod_perl - I have > read the docs but am still not getting there.
I've been through the same with CentOS RPM for BackupPC, eventually I just stopped using it... I rebuilt the SRPM for BackupPC from Fedora, it builds just fine in CentOS 5 and works just fine. It actually starts working out of the box, without any changes to Apache needed, you're able to use Apache with user "apache" and even run other applications on the same server. I reported those issues to CentOS, but they still found that requiring the users to change Apache's user was acceptable and did not want to change that... You may also try EPEL's package of BackupPC, I believe it will be the same as the one I rebuilt from Fedora's SRPMS: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/BackupPC-3.1.0-3.el5.noarch.rpm Otherwise, get Fedora's SRPM here: ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux//releases/11/Everything/source/SRPMS/BackupPC-3.1.0-5.fc11.src.rpm And use these instructions to rebuild it: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM HTH, Filipe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
