Package: backuppc Version: 3.2.1-4 Severity: important Hi Ludovic,
while debugging some issues with aborted backups, I stumbled over the following typo in /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump: 1065 # Send ALRMs to BackupPC_tarExtract if we are using it 1066 # 1067 if ( $tarPid > 0 ) { 1068 kill($bpc->sigName2num("ARLM"), $tarPid); ^^ It seems to be only typo of this kind in the package: # dgrep -n ARLM backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump:1068: kill($bpc->sigName2num("ARLM"), $tarPid); # I'm not sure if that typo causes our issues here, at least I don't see that typo in the logs. But misspelling a signal can cause quite severe behaviour changes of a program in general, since either the wrong or no signal at all may be sent. (Not sure what of those two things would happen. "perldoc -f kill" mentions that a signal of zero would send no signal, so if that string is not defined as signal, I'd say it results in zero when being parsed as integer.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org