Hi,
I've been using BackupPC for many years now, and have used /usr/bin/true
as the ping command for hosts that can't respond to ping. However after
a reboot on January 31st, my server stopped obeying pingcmd and stopped
backing up those hosts due to lack of ping response. I am using
BackupPC 4.4.0-5ubuntu2 amd64 on Ubuntu 22.04.
So far I have tried:
Overriding $Conf{PingCmd}, $Conf{PingPath}, and $Conf{Ping6Path} in the
global config from webui and config file.
Setting $Conf{PingCmd} in the client config to either /usr/bin/true or
ping -c1 127.0.0.1 using webui and config file.
None of the above seem to make any difference at all anymore. No matter
what I set, I restart the service and get the same error:
2024-04-05 13:58:38 can't ping (client = myclient.com); exiting
However I can confirm other changes to the client config files do have
an effect. For example setting a ClientNameAlias in the client config
works.
I also tried deleting the client config file and allowing the webui to
create it, and doing an apt-get --reinstall install backuppc. Same effect.
I'm wondering if anyone has noticed anything similar, or has advice on
how to debug.
Thanks,
Ian
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