Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
Ken Gregoire wrote: Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email system) where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email notifications. I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and would like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email system. what MTA do you have installed? btw, sendmail *is* the standard for mail systems. :) if you mean that you don't have an MTA installed at all; look into one of the send-only MTAs out there, like nullmailer(+debian patches), or similar ones (can't think of the names right now; they all suck compared to nullmailer once the debian patches have been added to it). do a freshmeat search, you'll find many. I use qmail on fedora. I would like to be able to use a username/ password to send mail and I cannot find where you would enter the password in backuppc, or if it is possible. Any ideas? I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup. Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work. Nils Breunese. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
Ken Gregoire wrote: Is there a way to setup backuppc to use a different MTA (email system) where it has to provide a url, username and password to send email notifications. I don't have sendmail on the backuppc system and would like backuppc to send email notifications via a standard email system. what MTA do you have installed? btw, sendmail *is* the standard for mail systems. :) if you mean that you don't have an MTA installed at all; look into one of the send-only MTAs out there, like nullmailer(+debian patches), or similar ones (can't think of the names right now; they all suck compared to nullmailer once the debian patches have been added to it). do a freshmeat search, you'll find many. I use qmail on fedora. I would like to be able to use a username/ password to send mail and I cannot find where you would enter the password in backuppc, or if it is possible. Any ideas? I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup. Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work. Nils Breunese. Where do you enter the password for the email account in backuppc? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
Ken Gregoire wrote:
I use qmail on CentOS and I have no problems using the default setup.
Qmail has a sendmail interface, so it should just work.
Where do you enter the password for the email account in backuppc?
You don't. BackupPC just calls the sendmail binary directly. The
default config.pl has:
$Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
You might have to alter this if your sendmail binary is in another
location.
Nils Breunese.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Got remote protocol 757955594
Craig Barratt wrote: The decimal value 757955594 is the first four bytes of the unexpected text or error from the remote machine. In hex it is 2D2D7C0A or --|\r. Does your .cshrc or ssh login sequence emit this string? This text should appear in ascii after bad version. I'm surprised to see the rest of that message is empty. that's it :-) I searched on the clients for the files which are modified at the time and looked for --| : - find . -mtime -4 -type f -xdev | xargs egrep \-\- - The file /etc/issue was found. After moving the file to /etc/issue.SAVE the BackupPC jobs are running thanks a lot ! Kai - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
On 07/11 08:17 , ken wrote: I use qmail on fedora. I would like to be able to use a username/password to send mail and I cannot find where you would enter the password in backuppc, or if it is possible. Any ideas? AFAICT, you're misunderstanding how mail works on Unix. Backuppc calls some executable program (the Mail Transport Agent, or MTA) and hands it a big chunk of text (your message). No authentication is necessary for this step, since it's on the local box. The MTA then tries to deliver that message to the next machine in the SMTP chain. This may be the destination machine (where the intended recipient's mailbox is hosted). If that is the case, there's still no authentication needed, since that's not part of communication between SMTP servers on the Internet (this is why you can't easily stop spammers from bombarding you). On the other hand, if all the machines on your network go through another mail server (a 'smarthost'); that machine *may* have SMTP Auth turned on. In that case, you'd need to configure your MTA (qmail in this case) to send the username/password combination to authenticate to that server so it can send mail. Usually tho, the smarthost is just set up to accept mail from the client's IP address (since it's not likely to change, and if the machine is compromised then the username password are available to the attacker anyway so it really doesn't do any good). Does this make things a bit more clear? Considering that qmail hasn't been updated since 1997 last I knew; it may not be possible to set up SMTP Auth on it. (Unless someone wrote a patch). SMTP Auth is really intended for roaming users who are trying to relay mail through your mailserver remotely. Not for machines on your local network. Without SMTP Auth; no password is needed to send mail. (Remember that this was all designed back in the day when you could personally *know* all the admins on the Internet; so they didn't think you needed authentication). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] 'chdir failed' error using rsyncd on MacOSX
Hi All,
I'm trying to set up rsyncd to work on a MacBook Pro (Tiger/10.4.7),
rsync v 2.6.3. I have gotten it to work fine via rsync with shared
ssh keys on another Powerbook, but the rsyncd version is more
attractive because of the rsyncd.secrets file (no need to set up
another user or to require the user to allow a remote login with his
key. The first is too much keyboard/mouse time; the second is a
security hole and will be actively resisted by the user base.
The client's rsyncd.conf file is:
---
auth users = wheel, backuppc
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
strict modes = true
use chroot = no
max verbosity = 10
[etc]
/private/etc
[homes]
/Users
[preferences]
/Library/Preferences
and /etc/rsyncd.secrets file allows the backuppc user in.
On the server side, the relevant lines from the client config are:
# do these 2 actually do anything if method is rsyncd?
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/private/etc', '/Users'];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = undef;
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = 1;
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host nice -n 19
$rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host nice -n
19 $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = 'etc', 'homes', 'preferences';
$Conf{RsyncdClientPort} = 873;
$Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'likearollingstone'; # wheel
$Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} = 1;
$Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} = 0.01;
$Conf{RsyncArgs} and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} are not edited
When I try to run the backup from the server, it implies a good login
(confirmed by the syslog) and then:
...
2006-07-11 10:22:44 full backup started for directory etc
2006-07-11 10:22:45 Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
2006-07-11 10:22:50 Backup aborted (chdir failed)
Googling til my fingers bleed reveal little on this error.
The syslog also reveals:
Jul 11 10:22:40 bongo rsyncd[1261]: params.c:Parameter() - Ignoring
badly formed line in configuration file: /private/etc\n
Jul 11 10:22:40 bongo rsyncd[1261]: params.c:Parameter() - Ignoring
badly formed line in configuration file: /Users\n
Jul 11 10:22:40 bongo rsyncd[1261]: params.c:Parameter() - Ignoring
badly formed line in configuration file: /Library/Preferences\n
I edited the files with joe - is the std newline (\n) still verboten
on Apples?
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Email Notifications - Via another MTA rather than sendmail
On 07/11 08:17 , ken wrote: I use qmail on fedora. I would like to be able to use a username/password to send mail and I cannot find where you would enter the password in backuppc, or if it is possible. Any ideas? AFAICT, you're misunderstanding how mail works on Unix. Backuppc calls some executable program (the Mail Transport Agent, or MTA) and hands it a big chunk of text (your message). No authentication is necessary for this step, since it's on the local box. The MTA then tries to deliver that message to the next machine in the SMTP chain. This may be the destination machine (where the intended recipient's mailbox is hosted). If that is the case, there's still no authentication needed, since that's not part of communication between SMTP servers on the Internet (this is why you can't easily stop spammers from bombarding you). On the other hand, if all the machines on your network go through another mail server (a 'smarthost'); that machine *may* have SMTP Auth turned on. In that case, you'd need to configure your MTA (qmail in this case) to send the username/password combination to authenticate to that server so it can send mail. Usually tho, the smarthost is just set up to accept mail from the client's IP address (since it's not likely to change, and if the machine is compromised then the username password are available to the attacker anyway so it really doesn't do any good). Does this make things a bit more clear? Considering that qmail hasn't been updated since 1997 last I knew; it may not be possible to set up SMTP Auth on it. (Unless someone wrote a patch). SMTP Auth is really intended for roaming users who are trying to relay mail through your mailserver remotely. Not for machines on your local network. Without SMTP Auth; no password is needed to send mail. (Remember that this was all designed back in the day when you could personally *know* all the admins on the Internet; so they didn't think you needed authentication). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com Carl - Thanks for the detailed explaination, so no SMTP Athentication - okay - I'll see what I can work out. Cheers! Ken - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore dont work via webtool, Part 2 (Bugreport)
Any news in this? Am Dienstag, den 16.05.2006, 09:45 +0200 schrieb Peter Padberg: Hi, when I try to restore with webtool, there comes a message: Restore requested to host xxx.com, backup #31, by backuppc from 83.218.48.xxx Reply from server was: ok: requested restore of providercontrolcenter.com, but a job is currently running, so this request will start late But backuppc put no job into queue. The queue is queue emtpy. Can someone help? Viele Gruesse, Peter -- _ Peter Padberg Padberg-IT D-31785 Hameln Am Schoet 3a Germany fon: +49-5151 60 99 70-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +49-5151 60 99 70-1 http://padberg-it.com Skype: padberg-it icq: 540954 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Unable to link errors and fix??
Searching through the email archives it seems that it is a known issue that BackupPC will exceed the hard link count specified as a maximum. And then I got the impression that there is a yet as unreleased version which fixes this. Is it possible to get this fix? Because I have hit 31999 hardlinks on my system and it is failing :( Thanks, John - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
