On Mar 3, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 21:06:46 Summers, James B. II wrote:
>> This is really odd.  I can restore a file from a backup that was done on
>> the command line.  But I still can not initiate a backup from the browser.
> 
> Can the web server user run any of the BackupPC commands?  IE, try running 
> the 
> commands with the privileges of www-data or httpd or whatever.
> 

Might be on to something here.  When at the client I try to initiate an 
incremental backup.  Which according to the docs should happen at any time.  I 
modified some file so I am sure there is something to backup.

The first messages come back as reply from server ok doInc, or something close 
to that.  But then when I go back to the hompage of that client I noticed that 
the "Failed Ping" count keeps increasing.  And the client log file never shows 
that anything was initiated, but the server log file shows the request.

>>From the command line I can ping the client by ip address and from the 
>>command line I can ping the server.

Since the webserver is dedicated to this function I simply set the user and 
group to backuppc to avoid all of the setuid stuff.  Seems to be happy, at 
least no errors in the httpd error log.



Ideas / Suggestions?





> Regards,
> Tyler
> 
> -- 
> "I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for
> a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full
> armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split."
>   -- Kurt Vonnegut



---
Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma





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