On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:01:19PM +0200, shacky wrote:

> I'm installing BackupPC 3.1.0 on a SuSE 10.0 system.
> After I installed it I copied the init.d/suse-backuppc script from the
> BackupPC sources directory to /etc/init.d/backuppc and I chmodded it
> to 755.
> Now if I start it with "/etc/init.d/backuppc start" I get this error:
> 
> server:/usr/local/src/BackupPC-3.1.0/init.d # /etc/init.d/backuppc start
> Starting backuppc: /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC: Wrong user: my
> userid is 0, instead of 105 (backuppc)
> Please su backuppc first
> BackupPC::Lib->new failed
> startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC: 2
> 
> Why this happens?
> I checked the init.d script and the parameters seems to be correct.
> The command that starts BackupPC in the "start)" stanza of the init.d
> script is "startproc -f  -p $LOGDIR/BackupPC.pid -u $USER
> $BINDIR/$DAEMON -d", which should be correct.
> If I try to manually execute the command "startproc -f  -p
> /var/log/BackupPC/BackupPC.pid -u backuppc
> /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d" (please note the "-u backuppc"
> parameter to start BackupPC as backuppc user) I get the same error, so
> I don't think the problem is the init.d script.

I just looked at my init script here and it's got the same line and
works. What happens if you try "su - backuppc"? Maybe the backuppc user
doesn't have a home directory, login shell or something similar?

HTH,

Tino.

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