After printing over a half inch of documentation and reading same I
discovered that I needed to get some clarification.

EG: __TOPDIR__
__TOPDIR__/pc/$host/config.pl (I get the $host as respresnting some
value and config.pl is a configuration file and __TOPDIR__ is some
important directory defined for the backup system. The clarification I
need is whether the directory is surrounded as in __some-directory__ or
just "some-directory" (without the quotes).

Then there are symbols as in $Conf{ServerPort} which looks like it is a
variable to which some value is assigned by joining this symbol to the
variable as in $Conf{ServerPort}=value.

I am considering BackupPC on Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu Lucid as well as
Debian. On Ubuntu 8.04 it is installed and visible if one uses "ps -A".
It seems to be located at /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC.

I tried the one liner command (su -s /bin/bash __BACKUPPCUSER__) to see
if it was alive but there is some problem with my ID or root ID or some
other ID or my use of the notation or all. I did not understand the
note: "If the BackupPC user is configured with /bin/false as the shell,
you can use the -s option to su to explicitly run a shell". Obviously,
there must be something in the configuration file that deals with name
and ID or a default name and ID I missed. So before I go any further it
looks like I need to properly understand the symbolic notations or
nothing will ever work.

Hope I can get some clarification so I can get this going. I was hoping
there would be some default set up right out of the box to give me a
starting point or working example. 

Thanks -- Ted Hilts



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