Bruce,

> BackupPC_serverMesg status info
> 
> The command just hangs. The strace information I provided shows that 
> it's hanging when trying to read input from the backuppc daemon.

By default the BackupPC programs use a unix-domain socket to
communicate with the BackupPC server.  Perhaps the unix-domain
socket is broken on this system?

You can use a TCP socket instead by setting $Conf{ServerPort} to
an available port number (typically > 1024).  You should also
set $Conf{ServerMesgSecret}.

However, the code always tries to connet using the unix domain
socket first, so you need to disable that part of the code.  Look
in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm, and in the function ServerConnect(),
replace this code:

    #
    # First try the unix-domain socket
    #
    my $sockFile = "$bpc->{LogDir}/BackupPC.sock";
    socket(*FH, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)     || return "unix socket: $!";
    if ( !connect(*FH, sockaddr_un($sockFile)) ) {

with

    #
    # First try the unix-domain socket
    #
    my $sockFile = "$bpc->{LogDir}/BackupPC.sock";
    #socket(*FH, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)     || return "unix socket: $!";
    if ( 1 ) {

You will need to restart BackupPC after making these changes.

Craig

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