Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails to start in daemon mode on Ubuntu 14

Thank you for your reply, Steven, but the init script doesn't seem to be the problem in this case. At this point, I'm invoking the BackupPC executable manually with the "-d" option and not creating a PID file. The init script though that comes with the Ubuntu package seems to do the right thing:

if [ ! -d /var/run/backuppc ]; then
mkdir /var/run/backuppc
chown backuppc:backuppc /var/run/backuppc
fi
...
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/backuppc/BackupPC.pid ...

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Stoyan

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Stephen <stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu> wrote:

Hi Stoyan,

Not sure if it is the same problem as you're having, but I had a similar symptom when using the default 'debian-backuppc' init script on Ubuntu 14.04; I am using BackupPC 4.0.0a3.

By default the directory where the pid file is stored (/var/run/BackupPC) doesn't exist. The attached file shows my diff to the init script. The script in 3.3.0 may need the same or similar changes.

Hth,
Stephen

On Mon, 11 May 2015, Stoyan Stoyanov wrote:

Hello,

After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 (backuppc 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1) to Ubuntu
14.04 (backuppc 3.3.0-1ubuntu1), BackupPC no longer starts in daemon mode.
It runs fine in foreground though. I tried with a fresh server install and
still the same thing. The child dies immediately after being forked and
exits when the parent process exits. Here's what it looks like if I add
"sleep 60;" right after forking the child process and before the parent
exiting "exit if ($pid);"

backuppc 16074 15421 0 15:55 pts/30 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d
backuppc 16076 16074 0 15:55 pts/30 00:00:00 [BackupPC] <defunct>

Same piece of code works fine if extracted and used by itself. Is there
anyone running BackupPC on Ubuntu 14.04 having the same problem?

Thanks,
Stoyan

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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC fails to start in daemon mode on Ubuntu 14.04