On 2017-03-05 at 17:35:10 J. Echter wrote:

> Am 05.03.2017 um 12:06 schrieb Erik P. Olsen:
> > I have retired my old desktop and moved my programmes including
> > bacula to my laptop. Since I have been running bacula successfully
> > for many years I thought it would be piece of cake to install
> > bacula on this other box. But it turned out not to be so.
> >
> > I am running linux with fedora 25 on both machines, and I've tried
> > to keep the new installation as close as possible to the old.
> >
> > Bacula is installed from the dnf repository on both machines and is
> > version 7.4.5-1. I am aware that the bacula files from fedora's
> > repository are "infected" with postgresql, so I have changed them to
> > default to mysql. To the problem:
> >
> > bacula-dir, bacula-fd and bacula-sd start correctly but testing the
> > directory yields:
> >
> > [root@Erik-PC bacula]# bacula-dir -t -d10 -c bacula-dir.conf
> > bacula-dir: dird.c:208-0 Debug level = 10
> > bacula-dir: dird_conf.c:1958-0 runscript cmd=prune expired volume
> > yes type=@ bacula-dir: dird_conf.c:1958-0 runscript
> > cmd=/usr/libexec/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog type=|
> > bacula-dir: dird_conf.c:1958-0 runscript cmd=truncate
> > storage=FileStorage pool=Files type=@ bacula-dir:
> > dird_conf.c:1958-0 runscript cmd=truncate storage=CatalogueStorage
> > pool=Catalogues type=@ bacula-dir: dird_conf.c:1958-0 runscript
> > cmd=/usr/libexec/bacula/delete_catalogue_backup type=| bacula-dir:
> > dird.c:969-0 Could not open Catalog "MyCatalog", database "bacula".
> > bacula-dir: dird.c:974-0 mysql.c:265 Unable to connect to MySQL
> > server. Database=bacula User=bacula MySQL connect failed either
> > server not running or your authorization is incorrect. 05-mar 11:58
> > bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file:
> > bacula-dir.conf [root@Erik-PC bacula]#
> >
> > I don't see this on the old machine which works flawlessly.
> >
> > I do hope someone will be able to pinpoint what the problem is or
> > perhaps give me a clue on how to diagnose it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> maybe you forgot to allow the ip from the new bacula server in your 
> mysql db server.
> 
> greets
> 
> juergen
> 
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That's interesting. I assume you mean DirAddress, FDAddress and
SDAddress. I don't specify them since the manual says they are optional
and I haven't had any problem so far by omitting them. Do you mean to
say that they are now mandatory? Or are you referring to something else?

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Erik

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