On 5/3/2011 12:11 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:42:42 -0600 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011:
>   >  Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot 
> seem to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user 
> no shell and all that, please help
>   >
>   >  usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost
>   >  /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 300 
> (backuppc)
>   >  Please su backuppc first
>   >  BackupPC::Lib->new failed
>   >
>
> Personally, I use 'sudo' -- as in:
>       sudo -u backuppc ....
> Not sure though if sudo is a standard package with freebsd...

Even it it is, it should try to run the shell specified in the passwd 
file for the user. Apparently the way backuppc is installed it doesn't 
have a valid shell or a simple su would have worked.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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