Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot create /var/run/BackupPC ??

Looked at the code, ${RunDir} is the location, and its s a directory not a file.

Not sure why it couldn't be created, but I did so manually, changed ownership 
to backuppc and it works.

Still don't know why it went wrong...

Steve

> On Apr 12, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Steve Palm <n9yty AT n9yty DOT com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I had a hard server crash, seems a RAM module went bad. After diagnosing and 
> getting it back up and running, BackupPC will no longer start. I simply get:
> 
> systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Starts and stops the BackupPC server...
> runuser[6605]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user backuppc by 
> (uid=0)
> backuppc[6604]: Starting BackupPC: 2017-04-12 14:32:20 Can't create 
> /var/run/BackupPC... quitting
> runuser[6605]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user backuppc
> backuppc[6604]: [FAILED]
> systemd[1]: backuppc.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
> systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Starts and stops the BackupPC server.
> systemd[1]: Unit backuppc.service entered failed state.
> systemd[1]: backuppc.service failed.
> 
> I am puzzled because I hadn't changed anything configuration-wise, system or 
> BackupPC, so I don't know why it won't start all of a sudden.
> 
> I can manually (as root) touch /var/run/BackupPC without issue, so I am 
> perplexed as to where to look from here.
> 
> Any ideas?
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