On 12/8/10 7:26 AM, Alan Taylor wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am setting up backuppc 3.2 from the tar file on a CentOS 5.5 server.
> The server is dedicated to backuppc and does nothing else.
> I'm using rsync, have the cgi interface working and can 'ssh
> backuppc@taurus' (i.e. as user backuppc ssh to the server itself
> (taurus) and to the other computers on the network). SSH is operating
> on passwordless keys.
>
> Running the command:
> ./BackupPC_dump -v -f taurus
> produces the error:
> Fatal error (bad version): setterm: $TERM is not defined.
> $TERM *is* defined (as xterm) for all users (root, some_normal_user
> and the backuppc user)
>
> Don't quite know what to try next ... ??

A) You need to be able to ssh root@target_host, starting as the backuppc user 
on 
the server, and

B) There must not be any output generated from the remote login that will come 
before the rsync starts.  It looks like something is executing in your 
.profile, 
.bashrc, etc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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