Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27:17 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009:
 > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400
 > "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
 > 
 > > Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August
 > > 12, 2009:
 > >  > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400
 > >  > "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday,
 > >  > > August 12, 2009:
 > >  > >  > Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another
 > >  > >  > instance.
 > >  > 
 > >  > ...
 > >  > >  > 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 
 > >  > >  > 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling
 > >  > >  > 
 > > MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml,
 > >  > >  > b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1)
 > >  > >  > 
 > >  > >  > followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files
 > >  > >  > 
 > >  > >  > What is going on here?
 > >  > >  > 
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a
 > >  > > file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Try manually doing something like the following from the command
 > >  > > line: link
 > >  > > b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 
 > > /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
 > >  > 
 > >  > Where do I need to be to run this? 
 > > 
 > > >From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is.
 > > Actually type it as:
 > > su -u backuppc link ...
 > > 
 > > so that it runs as user 'backuppc'
 > > If it works, you can undo it by typing:
 > > rm 
 > > /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
 > > (assuming the file didn't exist previously)
 > 
 > su doesn't have a -u option.
 > 

run: sudo -u backuppc
or su backuppc -c "link..."

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