-----Original Message----- From: Ron Wheeler Sent: August 10, 2005 4:18 PM To: 'Phil Stracchino' Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] bconsole spawns thousands of copies of itself
It looks OK. Could a problem with curses be involved? I had to install this (ncurses) since it was not part of the standard Mandrake setup - so many really useful things are not. I had to find a version of zlib for Mandrake to get bacula to build with MySQL. I tried to look at the bconsole code but I am not good enough to figure it out in a few minutes. console seems to contain a lot of the functionality to get it started. For the amount of functionality that it displays in my test, I should not be looking at a lot of code. ./bconsole -? should not get to deep into the code before it is done. I can see the section where the output is formulated but I do not understand how it gets there (or does not in my case) I am do not have a clear picture of the flow - where it starts , how it reads the command line and how it dispatches to the section that outputs the help. I did not come across any code that I could see spawning a new process but perhaps I would not recognize it unless the author has put a comment to that effect. It can not be that much code but there is really no roadmap for the uninitiated. The really frustrating thing is that I have had all of this stuff working together on this same hardware for a few months and it was not that easy to set up - each piece of open source is a project to install. Once I got it going, it was pretty trouble-free. It was a web server and Windows file server so I really need my backups for the client data and I was hoping to get back my configuration files to save me a lot of grief in setting up Apache, Tomcat, Samba, etc. The Madrake security stuff is a PITA by itself and I had all of the protections and access control working well. Ron -----Original Message----- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 10, 2005 3:46 PM To: Ron Wheeler Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole spawns thousands of copies of itself Ron Wheeler wrote: > I have now added a dummy (incorrect director to the bconsole.conf just to see > if it would even ask which one to pick. It does not get that far. > > Does anyone have any idea what circumstances would cause bconsole to spawn a > copy of itself. The copies are all in wait state butw hen you get 12000 of > them, there are always 11+ waiting for some sort of CPU attention. > > I seems to happen very early in the startup since ./bconsole -? does the same > thing. It prints bconsole doing -? > and then goes away and starts the descent into process hell. > > I think that I am just going to reinstall everything and try again. It certainly sounds as though there is something VERY wrong with your bconsole build. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
