Yes, the --config-dir option to configure.pl should override the fhs
default of /etc/BackupPC.
Assuming configure.pl runs successfully, it modifies lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm
and replaces __CONFDIR__ (and also __TOPDIR__, __INSTALLDIR__ etc) with
whatever was configured. So look near the top of that file to see what
settings ended up there. Presumably it is incorrectly set to
/etc/BackupPC, so something didn't work correct. All the other BackupPC
programs inherit the values from there - there are no command-line options
to override.
Craig
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:31 AM PGNet Dev <pgnet....@gmail.com> wrote:
> installing BackupPC 4.4.0, i setup with an alternate config dir
>
> perl configure.pl --batch \
> --config-dir /usr/local/etc/backuppc \
> ...
>
> my configs are
>
> ls -al /usr/local/etc/backuppc/{*,*/*}pl
> -rw-r----- 1 wwwrun www 87K Oct 3 21:35
> /usr/local/etc/backuppc/config.pl
> -rw-r----- 1 wwwrun www 3.5K Oct 5 07:14
> /usr/local/etc/backuppc/pc/localhost.pl
>
> when I start the CGI
>
> systemd start backuppc
>
> it fails
>
> logs
> Oct 05 08:12:45 test systemd[1]: Started BackupPC server.
> Oct 05 08:12:45 test BackupPC[3316]: No language setting
> Oct 05 08:12:45 test BackupPC[3316]: BackupPC::Lib->new
> failed
> Oct 05 08:12:45 test systemd[1]: backuppc.service: Main
> process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
> Oct 05 08:12:45 test systemd[1]: backuppc.service: Failed
> with result 'exit-code'.
>
>
> simply
>
> ln -sf /usr/local/etc/backuppc /etc/BackupPC
>
> cures the problem
>
> systemd start backuppc
>
>
> logs
> Oct 05 08:16:28 test systemd[1]: Started BackupPC server.
>
> ps ax | grep -i backuppc
> 3353 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC
>
> i understand that "--fhs" defaults to config location under
> '/etc/BackupPC', but reading
>
>
> https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Configuration-File
>
> &
>
>
> https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Config-and-Log-Directories
>
> expected that the @ configure.pl override would be respected.
>
> looking in
>
> bin/BackupPC
>
> the only mentioned cmd line options is "d"
>
> ...
>
> ###########################################################################
> # Handle command line options
>
> ###########################################################################
> my %opts;
> if ( !getopts("d", \%opts) || @ARGV != 0 ) {
> print(STDERR "usage: $0 [-d]\n");
> exit(1);
> }
>
>
> ###########################################################################
> ...
>
>
> what/where do i need to config to correctly point BackupPC at the intended
> config-dir = /usr/local/etc/backuppc
>
>
>
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