> Do you have strace? strace -p process_id should show you any system
> calls a running process is making and might give you a hint about what
> it is doing. Or you can start a program with strace to see how far it
> gets.
I installed strace and then tried
strace /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status info
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The last few lines of the output were:
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbec95b60) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate
ioctl for device)
read(3, "root:$1$u.2QTgpX$h2GoA.vewi0uEGc"..., 4096) = 326
close(3) = 0
open("/etc/shadow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
close(2) = 0
dup(1) = 2
ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) =
0
lseek(2, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0622, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
fcntl(2, F_SETFD, 0) = 0
ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) =
0
lseek(2, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
SYS_281(0x1, 0x1, 0, 0x1196e0, 0) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbec95b0c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid
argument)
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbec95b0c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid
argument)
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
SYS_283(0x3, 0x4e0d98, 0x70, 0x4ea1d0, 0x4e0d98) = 0
read(3,
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Then the output did not continue until I pressed Ctrl-C.
Unfortunately I do not know enough about system calls to be able to interpret
the output. As much as I understand, the output just confirms that BackupPC
does not succeed in reading the Server's Seed.
Or do you see something else in the output that could give me a hint?
Greetings,
Christoph
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