I have four hosts with identical configuration, as far as I know.
All of them have:

  $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8;

On one, and only one as far as I can tell, running:

  sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run

results in:

  $ ps -aef | grep -i nigh
  backuppc  6375  2788  0 11:39 ?        00:00:12 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31

On all three others, I get:

  $ ps -aef | grep -i nigh
  backuppc 30013  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly -m 0 31
  backuppc 30014  2856  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 32 63
  backuppc 30015  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 64 95
  backuppc 30016  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 96 127
  backuppc 30017  2856  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 128 159
  backuppc 30018  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 160 191
  backuppc 30019  2856  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 192 223
  backuppc 30020  2856  1 12:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/local/bin/BackupPC_nightly 224 255

when I do that.

I have run the admin reload.

I have my config in an unusual place, but AFAICT that's handled:

  /usr/local/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm:            ConfDir    => $confDir eq "" ? 
'/engineyard/etc/backuppc' : $confDir,

All of them are running:

  # Version 3.2.0beta1, released 24 Jan 2010.

Any ideas as to what might be going on?

-Robin

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