There is no RunDir setting. Here are all the *Dir settings:
$Conf{TopDir} = '/var/lib/backuppc';
$Conf{ConfDir} = '/etc/backuppc';
$Conf{LogDir} = '/var/lib/backuppc/log';
$Conf{InstallDir} = '/usr/share/backuppc';
$Conf{CgiDir} = '/usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin';
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Stephen <step...@physics.unc.edu> wrote:
> What's the value of $Conf{RunDir} in your config.pl? /var/run/backuppc ?
>
> On Tue, 12 May 2015, Stoyan Stoyanov wrote:
>
> Thank you for your reply, Steven, but the init script doesn't seem to be
>> the problem in this case. At this point, I'm invoking the
>> BackupPC executable manually with the "-d" option and not creating a PID
>> file. The init script though that comes with the Ubuntu
>> package seems to do the right thing:
>>
>> if [ ! -d /var/run/backuppc ]; then
>> mkdir /var/run/backuppc
>> chown backuppc:backuppc /var/run/backuppc
>> fi
>> ...
>> start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/backuppc/BackupPC.pid ...
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stoyan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Stephen <step...@physics.unc.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Stoyan,
>>
>> Not sure if it is the same problem as you're having, but I had a
>> similar symptom when using the default 'debian-backuppc'
>> init script on Ubuntu 14.04; I am using BackupPC 4.0.0a3.
>>
>> By default the directory where the pid file is stored
>> (/var/run/BackupPC) doesn't exist. The attached file shows my diff
>> to the init script. The script in 3.3.0 may need the same or
>> similar changes.
>>
>> Hth,
>> Stephen
>>
>> On Mon, 11 May 2015, Stoyan Stoyanov wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 (backuppc 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1)
>> to Ubuntu
>> 14.04 (backuppc 3.3.0-1ubuntu1), BackupPC no longer starts in
>> daemon mode.
>> It runs fine in foreground though. I tried with a fresh
>> server install and
>> still the same thing. The child dies immediately after being
>> forked and
>> exits when the parent process exits. Here's what it looks
>> like if I add
>> "sleep 60;" right after forking the child process and before
>> the parent
>> exiting "exit if ($pid);"
>>
>> backuppc 16074 15421 0 15:55 pts/30 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
>> -w
>> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d
>> backuppc 16076 16074 0 15:55 pts/30 00:00:00 [BackupPC]
>> <defunct>
>>
>> Same piece of code works fine if extracted and used by
>> itself. Is there
>> anyone running BackupPC on Ubuntu 14.04 having the same
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stoyan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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