Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-20 Thread Dan Pritts
probably the web server doesn't have the right permissions. see what user each is running under. For simplest case, just make them both run under the same user id. However, depending on what else you have running, that might or might not be right for you. Mauro Condarelli

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-19 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Thanks Dan, I have a config.pl: backuppc@syno0:~/BackupPC/conf$ ls -la total 96 drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc users 4096 Mar 13 12:31 . drwxr-xr-x 9 backuppc users 4096 Mar 13 12:39 .. -rw-r- 1 backuppc users 85652 Mar 13 12:31 config.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc users 2214

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-19 Thread Mauro Condarelli
As said (see below) I managed to get an apparently working installation. I sat up a test backup on localhost and manually started a backup. Apparently everything was ok: 2016-03-18 09:44:29 full backup started for directory /volume1/homes 2016-03-18 10:27:23 full backup 0 complete, 704991 files,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-19 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Thanks Dan, after fiddling a bit with strace (available as option on my synology) I found the problem. Problem is I installed with "--no-fhs" and in this condition install process (configure.pl) and Lib.pm completely disregard whatever I define as confdir and force it to be "$topDir/conf"

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-19 Thread Dan Pritts
I know nothing about a synology nas, but i found this in the source: Lib.pm:return "No language setting" if ( !defined($bpc->{Conf}{Language}) ); My config.pl file has $Conf{Language} = 'en'; I wonder if you aren't getting a config.pl file at all, perhaps the source

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-19 Thread Dan Pritts
Not sure about the suexec & what program needs what permissions. Hmm. if your http basic auth user name doesn't match a user name that is listed in the hosts file, you will not have access to the given host. Mauro Condarelli March 18, 2016 at 11:30 AM Thanks Dan, I

[BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-18 Thread Mauro Condarelli
I already tried sending this, but it never showed in ML, so I'm trying again (sorry if You get a duplicate). __ Hi, I am trying to install BackupPC-3.3.1 (the latest, AFAIK) on a Synology NAS. Obviously I have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-18 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Thanks Dan, I am using suexec to run the CGI scripts as user backuppc. Here follows my backuppc.conf: ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /opt/backuppc/BackupPC LogLevel trace1 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog

Re: [BackupPC-users] Non standard installation... failed (resend)

2016-03-18 Thread Guayhaur Shue
I have similar problem recently. The error message you got is indeed caused by BackupPC can not find (or read) config.pl. I solved my problem by replace the config.pl with a known good config.pl file. Guayhaur > On Mar 17, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > >