Not sure if this will add to the same thread or create a new one so just to recap.
On one of our backuppc servers the Web GUI has been failing to launch with a 504 Gateway timeout error showing up. One responder asked if backuppc service was running which I checked with pgrep backuppc this showed nothing initially but then realised the process is listed as BackupPC not all lower case. On trying service backuppc restart I get this response :~$ sudo service backuppc restart * Restarting backuppc... No process in pidfile '/var/run/backuppc/BackupPC.pid' found running; none killed. If I then run pgrep BackupPC the number of pids has incremented by 1.... Running ps -ef | grep BackupPC shows these pids are all as follows: backuppc 20340 1 0 14:58 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d Just to test things I tried killing all the running BackupPC PIDs and when all done I could then access the web interface but got error: Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC Server This CGI Script (/backuppc/index.cgi) is unable to connect to the BackupPC server on <myservername> port -1. Perhaps the BackupPC server is not running or there is a configuration error. Please report this to your Sys Admin. On running service backuppc start I can no longer connect to the web GUI at all. This is all on Ubuntu 12.04 server identical in every other way to 2 other working BackupPC Servers in production. Only change of any note was to remove a host which no longer needs backed up from both /etc/backuppc/hosts, the config file for that host from /etc/backuppc and from /var/lib/backuppc/pc/. I've compared settings between the problem server and 2 working ones and can see no differnence between them in either config file content or the permissions on those files. At a loss as to how apparently running the backuppc service blocks access to the web interface. I've been googling this issue for a few days now and come up with nada so anyone else out there with suggestions is welcome to chime in. cheers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ 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/
