On 04/15/2012 05:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Gary Roach<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This is a new installation and my first time trying to install backuppc. >> I have a Debian Linux Squeeze system. Every time I issue service >> backuppc start from root I get: >> >> Starting backuppc...mkdir /var/log/backuppc: Permission denied at >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC line 1813 >> >> Line 1813 is trying to create a /var/log/backuppc log file. This >> requires root privileges on my system. How do I fix this. >> > Create the directory as root, then change ownership to backuppc. I > would have expected this to be done by a script in the install > package, though. > > Thanks Les. That worked. I think that the real problem has to do with my security setup. I tried making backuppc part of the root user group but that didn't help.
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