Tom,

Those names should all be replaced with the actual names or paths specific
to your installation.  When you ran configure.pl, the values you chose (eg,
the name of the BackupPC user, and the TopDir) are used to replace those
values.

Craig

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 4:28 PM Tim Evans <tkev...@tkevans.com> wrote:

> On 8/30/20 6:47 PM, Tom Cada wrote:
>
> >         All of the various BackupPC environment variables such as
> >         __BACKUPPCUSER__ or __TOPDIR__ are missing.
> >
> >         If I try as suggested in your documentation
> >
> >         $ sudo su - __BACKUPPCUSER__
> >         I get the error
> >         su: user __BACKUPPCUSER__ does not exist
>
> Not sure those variables would be set for a non-BackupPC user, but, in
> any case, shouldn't that be:
>
> $ su - $__BACKUPPCUSER__
>
> (i.e., variables are referenced in most cases with the preceding dollar
> sign.)
>
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