On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 15:22:34 Summers, James B. II wrote: >> Might be on to something here. When at the client I try to initiate an >> incremental backup. Which according to the docs should happen at any >> time. I modified some file so I am sure there is something to backup. >> >> The first messages come back as reply from server ok doInc, or something >> close to that. But then when I go back to the hompage of that client I >> noticed that the "Failed Ping" count keeps increasing. And the client log >> file never shows that anything was initiated, but the server log file >> shows the request. > > What distro?
RHEL4 > Installed from what source? tarball from the sourceforge site. > > Installing on Ubuntu hardy from the distro packages, most files are owned by > root:root with normal permissions. Excecptions: > > -rwsr-x--- backuppc www-data /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi > > drwxr-xr-x backuppc www-data /etc/backuppc > -rw-r--r-- backuppc www-data /etc/backuppc/apache.conf > -rw-r----- backuppc www-data /etc/backuppc/config.pl > -rw-r----- backuppc www-data /etc/backuppc/hosts > drwxr-x--- backuppc backuppc /var/lib/backuppc > drwxr-x--- backuppc backuppc /var/lib/backuppc/cpool > drwxr-x--- backuppc backuppc /var/lib/backuppc/pc > drwxr-x--- backuppc backuppc /var/lib/backuppc/pool > drwxr-x--- backuppc backuppc /var/lib/backuppc/trash > > The web server runs as www-data:www-data, can read the cgi, and the cgi runs > as setuid backuppc. Then the backuppc user can read/write anything else that > matters. I suppose the most obvious thing to check is "what user does your > index.cgi run as?" My httpd is running as backuppc:backuppc, so I set: -r-xr-xr-x 1 backuppc backuppc 3998 Feb 19 10:35 /var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin my data_dir for backuppc looks like: drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Mar 4 10:37 cpool drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Mar 4 10:37 pc drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 19 10:35 pool drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Mar 3 16:23 trash And the /usr/local/BackupPC dir: drwxr-xr-x 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 19 10:35 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 19 10:35 doc drwxr-xr-x 4 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 19 10:35 lib But still no joy. Ideas? TIA > > Regards, > Tyler > > -- > "Laws are never as effective as habits." > -- Adlai Stevenson > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ --- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
