On 22 Jul 2008 at 14:08, Joanne Cook wrote:

I would think very seriously about double checking that the backuppc user 
has full access to the log directory  AND also directory execute privilages to 
all of the other directories in the chain.

> Hi Adam,
> 
> I had done exactly what you said, but in the process of redoing it I figured 
> out what was going on. After installation it worked fine, until the point at 
> which I changed the log directory from a blank entry to /var/log/backuppc. 
> Other config changes didn't stop it working- but that one did. When I changed 
> it back to a blank it worked again. Oddly it would write logs into the new 
> directory perfectly well even when it was failing to start. I don't really 
> understand why it failed, but I can certainly live with the default logging 
> directory!
> 
> Many thanks for your help
> 
> Jo
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Goryachev" <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
> To: "Joanne Cook" <j.cook AT oxfordarch.co DOT uk>
> Cc: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Sent: 22 July 2008 13:46:35 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] unix bind error on ubuntu 8.04
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> Joanne Cook wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > I tried to completely reinstall backuppc by running sudo apt-get purge 
> > backuppc, reinstalled it,
> > and left it as the default configuration (smb) with the only entry in hosts 
> > being localhost, 
> > but this gave the same error.
> 
> Do you mean you ran "apt-get --purge remove backuppc" and then "rm -rf
> /etc/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc" and then "apt-get install backuppc"
> 
> I think you might need to do all that to completely remove backuppc if
> you had modified any of the config files.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
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