[BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
Hi all, I wanted to test the mail function with BackupPC as described on http://webserveraddress/backuppc/html/doc/BackupPC.html#step_8__checking_email_delivery, but got the below error message. I installed BackupPC according to the CentOS-BackupPC wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC. Could anyone offer any insights on this? I though the backuppc-account was a nologin (or some such) account, thus a su isn't possible. r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su backuppc r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# Thanks for any help or explanations. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 3 signals GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # Evolution is a harsh mistress. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:18:24 +0100, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se a écrit : Hi, I wanted to test the mail function with BackupPC as described on http://webserveraddress/backuppc/html/doc/BackupPC.html#step_8__checking_email_delivery, but got the below error message. I installed BackupPC according to the CentOS-BackupPC wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC. Could anyone offer any insights on this? I though the backuppc-account was a nologin (or some such) account, thus a su isn't possible. r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su backuppc su - backuppc r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# Thanks for any help or explanations. -- P.Bourdais Gie Infagri Rue Albert Einstein Parc Technopole de changé 53061 Laval Cedex 9 Tél: 02.43.49.84.40 « Celui qui est prêt à sacrifier un peu de liberté pour obtenir un peu de sécurité ne mérite vraiment ni l'une, ni l'autre. » ( Benjamin Franklin ) -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
On Thursday 28 January 2010 10:18:24 Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, I wanted to test the mail function with BackupPC as described on http://webserveraddress/backuppc/html/doc/BackupPC.html#step_8__checking_em ail_delivery, but got the below error message. I installed BackupPC according to the CentOS-BackupPC wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC. Could anyone offer any insights on this? I though the backuppc-account was a nologin (or some such) account, thus a su isn't possible. r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su backuppc Try su - backuppc to get backuppc's environment. Tony r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# Thanks for any help or explanations. -- Chief Technical Officer. Tel: +353 061-202778 Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:20:05 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC su - backuppc Already tried that, same thing happens: r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u You're still root!! sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) ^^ definately still root Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# On my machine [r...@shannon ~]# [r...@shannon ~]# su - backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ see changed user to backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u moll...@mail.x.y.z Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash [backu...@shannon ~]$ grep backuppc /etc/passwd backuppc:x:490:490: BackupPC User :/home/backuppc:/bin/bash I suspect your backuppc user is not set up correctly. In my case it's got a uid of 490 and is a login account Tony -- Chief Technical Officer. Tel: +353 061-202778 Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
-Original Message- From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:20 PM To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support' Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC -Original Message- From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC su - backuppc Already tried that, same thing happens: r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# Did some thinking and got it working, sort of... r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ whoami backuppc backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Sending test email using /bin/mail -t -f sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /bin/mail: invalid option -- t Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... [-- sendmail-options ...] mail [-iInNv] -f [name] mail [-iInNv] [-u user] backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ Now what? I don't see any t mentioned in man mail... Or am I getting slightly blind here? 8-S -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
-Original Message- From: Tony Molloy [mailto:tony.mol...@ul.ie] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:56 PM To: sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se; General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:20:05 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC su - backuppc Already tried that, same thing happens: r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u You're still root!! sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) ^^ definately still root Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# On my machine [r...@shannon ~]# [r...@shannon ~]# su - backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ see changed user to backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u moll...@mail.x.y.z Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash [backu...@shannon ~]$ grep backuppc /etc/passwd backuppc:x:490:490: BackupPC User :/home/backuppc:/bin/bash I suspect your backuppc user is not set up correctly. In my case it's got a uid of 490 and is a login account The BackupPC installer sets the backuppc account up with nologin (no GUI login). In /etc/passwd the shell is /bin/false, so no GUI login allowed, but it should allow one to su in as backuppc. I solved that by adding the -s /bin/bash, as per the previous post. Now I can su properly to backuppc. The problem *now* is that /bin/mail doesn't understand the -t switch. As I mentioned, I can't find anything about this t parameter in man mail, but in the /usr/bin/BackupPC_SendEmail script the t parameter is mentioned as something that -t display the emails that would be sent, without sending them. To me this is rather cryptic, and I don't quite understand the why's, what's and where's of this alluring -t and how I fix this. Grateful for any help! Thanks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:37:27 +0100,
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se a écrit :
-Original Message-
From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:20 PM
To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support'
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
-Original Message-
From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
su - backuppc
Already tried that, same thing happens:
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
/usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150
(backuppc)
Please su backuppc first
BackupPC::Lib-new failed
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]#
Did some thinking and got it working, sort of...
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc
backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ whoami
backuppc
backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u
sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
Sending test email using /bin/mail -t -f sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
You have to use sendmail, and not mail. In my config :
$Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'
And sendmail :
/usr/sbin/sendmail - /usr/local/exim/bin/exim
/bin/mail: invalid option -- t
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
[-- sendmail-options ...]
mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$
Now what? I don't see any t mentioned in man mail... Or am I getting
slightly blind here? 8-S
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
On Thursday 28 January 2010 13:16:41 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Tony Molloy [mailto:tony.mol...@ul.ie] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:56 PM To: sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se; General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:20:05 Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC su - backuppc Already tried that, same thing happens: r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u You're still root!! sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) ^^ definately still root Please su backuppc first BackupPC::Lib-new failed r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# On my machine [r...@shannon ~]# [r...@shannon ~]# su - backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ see changed user to backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u moll...@mail.x.y.z Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc [backu...@shannon ~]$ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash [backu...@shannon ~]$ grep backuppc /etc/passwd backuppc:x:490:490: BackupPC User :/home/backuppc:/bin/bash I suspect your backuppc user is not set up correctly. In my case it's got a uid of 490 and is a login account The BackupPC installer sets the backuppc account up with nologin (no GUI login). In /etc/passwd the shell is /bin/false, so no GUI login allowed, but it should allow one to su in as backuppc. I solved that by adding the -s /bin/bash, as per the previous post. Now I can su properly to backuppc. The problem *now* is that /bin/mail doesn't understand the -t switch. As I mentioned, I can't find anything about this t parameter in man mail, but in the /usr/bin/BackupPC_SendEmail script the t parameter is mentioned as something that -t display the emails that would be sent, without sending them. To me this is rather cryptic, and I don't quite understand the why's, what's and where's of this alluring -t and how I fix this. Grateful for any help! Thanks. Ok I run backuppc on CentOS and man mail says ~tname ... Add the given names to the direct recipient list. So I'd just remove the -t and see what happens. Hope this helps, Tony -- Chief Technical Officer. Tel: +353 061-202778 Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
On Thursday 28 January 2010 13:31:28 Pascal Bourdais wrote:
Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:37:27 +0100,
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se a écrit :
-Original Message-
From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:20 PM
To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support'
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
-Original Message-
From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:pbourd...@infagri.fr]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
su - backuppc
Already tried that, same thing happens:
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u
sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my
userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc)
Please su backuppc first
BackupPC::Lib-new failed
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]#
Did some thinking and got it working, sort of...
r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc
backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ whoami
backuppc
backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u
sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
Sending test email using /bin/mail -t -f sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
You have to use sendmail, and not mail. In my config :
$Conf{SendmailPath} = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'
And sendmail :
/usr/sbin/sendmail - /usr/local/exim/bin/exim
In my config file it's also sendmail. I wonder what distro the OP uses
Tony
/bin/mail: invalid option -- t
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
[-- sendmail-options ...]
mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$
Now what? I don't see any t mentioned in man mail... Or am I getting
slightly blind here? 8-S
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
-Original Message- From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:10 PM To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support' Subject: RE: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC Did you perhaps set SendmailPath to mail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail? -t is a flag to sendmail that says the To:/From: headers are already in the input. I didn't change those paths, it's a plain vanilla install really. With that said, /usr/bin/mail is the preset value. Ok, I'll try sendmail instead then. Thanks! @Tony Molloy: I run BackupPC on CentOS 5.4 and used the howto available at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC for setting this up. No mention of sendmail in that howto. Changed the path and now I don't get any error message any longer. Can't tell for sure if works or not though. Am I supposed to get the testmail in the inbox for the mail address listed below? r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ whoami backuppc backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ This is getting tedious. I hope you guys don't mind my ranting back and forth... 8-} Thanks all for now, I'm pretty sure I'll be back soon again with something else I need help with. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
-Original Message- From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:18 PM To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support' Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC Did you perhaps set SendmailPath to mail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail? -t is a flag to sendmail that says the To:/From: headers are already in the input. I didn't change those paths, it's a plain vanilla install really. With that said, /usr/bin/mail is the preset value. Ok, I'll try sendmail instead then. Thanks! @Tony Molloy: I run BackupPC on CentOS 5.4 and used the howto available at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC for setting this up. No mention of sendmail in that howto. Changed the path and now I don't get any error message any longer. Can't tell for sure if works or not though. Am I supposed to get the testmail in the inbox for the mail address listed below? Right now I feel rather like a dunce. I didn't configure sendmail... The below link helped though. Once I setup the smtp address, the test mail dropped in. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-configure-sendmail-as-outbound-submission -mta/ To my defense I must say, I've never dealt with sendmail before... This is a first. 8-} Anyway, seems like all (most visible things anyway) are in working order now. Thanks all for your help and suggestions, you've been stellar so far! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
On 1/28/2010 9:17 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Did you perhaps set SendmailPath to mail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail? -t is a flag to sendmail that says the To:/From: headers are already in the input. I didn't change those paths, it's a plain vanilla install really. With that said, /usr/bin/mail is the preset value. I'd report that as a bug to the packager. Ok, I'll try sendmail instead then. Thanks! @Tony Molloy: I run BackupPC on CentOS 5.4 and used the howto available at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC for setting this up. No mention of sendmail in that howto. Changed the path and now I don't get any error message any longer. Can't tell for sure if works or not though. Am I supposed to get the testmail in the inbox for the mail address listed below? r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ whoami backuppc backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se backu...@mach012 ~/ [0]$ This is getting tedious. I hope you guys don't mind my ranting back and forth... 8-} Thanks all for now, I'm pretty sure I'll be back soon again with something else I need help with. Sendmail should work for _sending_ mail (but not receiving remotely) out of the box on a Centos install if your DNS works and you have direct outbound access. If you have to relay through another host to get out, set SMART_HOST in sendmail.mc and restart sendmail. If you have to deliver local mail to another server, set MAIL_HUB in sendmail.mc. If you don't have a DNS-resolvable hostname, you will have to also set MASQUERADE_AS in sendmail.mc to get most other machines to accept the mail. You can look at /var/log/maillog to see where things are going. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC
On 1/28/2010 5:01 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: I wanted to test the mail function with BackupPC as described on http://webserveraddress/backuppc/html/doc/BackupPC.html#step_8__checking_em ail_delivery, but got the below error message. I installed BackupPC according to the CentOS-BackupPC wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC. Could anyone offer any insights on this? I though the backuppc-account was a nologin (or some such) account, thus a su isn't possible. r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su backuppc Try su - backuppc to get backuppc's environment. The problem here is that the backuppc user added by the rpm package doesn't have a shell in the /etc/passwd file (which you need for this sort of testing and testing the ssh keys). Either fix this and be done with it or use 'su -s /bin/bash backuppc' every time. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Central backup system software?
I have been looking for a software which will do central backup for our video files from different stores. Each store has Raid1 hotswap driver for backup HD and the HD will be pluged into the central backup system once a week. At central system, there are different subfolders for all stores. I am looking for a software will automatically backup the store HD to central backup system. The backup software will only copy the data with the date later than the date of the files in the central backup system. Can anyone please let me know the sfotware? Thanks, Roger +-- |This was sent by wei...@chineselink.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Central backup system software?
Hi Roger, On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:57:47PM -0500, toughman wrote: I have been looking for a software which will do central backup for our video files from different stores. Each store has Raid1 hotswap driver for backup HD and the HD will be pluged into the central backup system once a week. At central system, there are different subfolders for all stores. I am looking for a software will automatically backup the store HD to central backup system. The backup software will only copy the data with the date later than the date of the files in the central backup system. Can anyone please let me know the sfotware? Well, you asked within a particular software's discussion forum already... If you just want to copy the harddisks, then I'd go for a custom rsync-based scripting solution. What operating system are you talking about, BTW? What is the expected backup volume? How many stores, how large drives etc.? Are there duplicate files or are they all unique? It looks like BackupPC is not the kind of software you're looking for. HTH, Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] server spec for BackupPC
Chris Robertson wrote: 4 Port 3Ware SATA Raid card* - $310 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116052 Careful, the 9550SX/SU's don't work in a PCI slot. 1.5 TB SATA Drives - $145 each ( $725 for 5, so you have a spare) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148531 Not sure I'd want 5900 rpm drives.. Depending on how much space you need, I'd look into spending the bucks and getting some raid edition drives. Chris * PCI-X is backwards compatible with PCI, so this card will work in a PCI slot. Except when 3ware doesn't provide the cutout and the slot is physically incompatible. I have a 9550SX-16 right here, and there's no way it'll fit in a pci slot. 9500's will run in 64bit mode though, which provides a bit of a boost compared to just regular PCI Mike -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] autossh issues
We've been using Backuppc for years to backup machines over the WAN. It
has worked nearly flawlessly for us in the past, but we are starting to
see issues with new machines that we bring online. I think the trouble
may have to do with the recent updates to Cygwin.
When backing up remote Windows machines over a WAN, we setup a
persistent tunnel using autossh and then backup to localhost on some
port which is redirected to rsync on the remote server. Here is a
typical example:
/usr/lib/autossh/autossh -2 -N -M 38022 -L 9035:localhost:873 -C
administra...@remotehost.domain.com
In our config.pl, we will have some lines like these:
$Conf{XferMethod}='rsyncd';
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = localhost;
$Conf{RsyncdClientPort} = 9035;
Now, our issue lately is that the tunnels always seem to be dropping.
We get errors like this:
Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 38022
That invariably restarts the ssh tunnel, which drops any active rsync.
We've tried with other commands like this:
/usr/lib/autossh/autossh -o ServerAliveInterval 59 -o
ServerAliveCountMax 20 -2 -N -M 0 -L 9035:localhost:873 -C
administra...@remotehost.domain.com
But these fail as well. We are also seeing a build up of 10's to 100's
of sshd.exe and rsync.exe processes on the remote machines which is
bringing them to a crawl.
Does anyone have any ideas of ways we can change what we are doing with
the new Cygwin that will help? Is there a way to install the old
Cygwin?
One other thing: we have been replacing the rsync.exe that comes with
the new Cygwin with an older one that uses protocol 28. We did that
because 1) that is the highest protocol the rsync perl module supports,
and 2) the newer Cygwin rsync seems to leave .pid files laying around
when the server is rebooted, and subsequently won't restart until you
delete the .pid.
Thanks.
Trey Nolen
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Re: [BackupPC-users] new switch, slower backups
I have decided to try a direct Ethernet connection between the server and the backuppc machine. I will see what happens. I added a line to the hosts file to make sure that backuppc uses that connection. There were lots of good suggestions here. Chris Baker -- cba...@intera.com systems administrator INTERA -- 512-425-2006 -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 3:10 PM To: General list for user discussion,questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] new switch, slower backups l...@consolejunky.net wrote: On 01/23/2010 07:29 PM, klemens wrote: Am Samstag, den 23.01.2010, 11:54 -0600 schrieb Les Mikesell: or something like that ? linuxpc: # mii-tool eth0 eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok Add a -v for more information: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok product info: vendor 00:50:ef, model 14 rev 0 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control link partner: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD Mii-tool doesn't really understand gig NICs - use ethtool instead. But the real evidence of problems is in errors in the ifconfig display or the counters on the switch ports. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
