On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be
the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose
why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell (su -s
/bin/bash backuppc if it doesn't have a shell configure for login).
OK, I wiped and re-installed again.
The four empty folders under TOPDIR are all "root root", I chown'd to backuppc and chgrp'd to www-data and the init start worked fine.
Now I'm just guessing that if I need to reset permissions in the future I should do the same with -R - is that true for conf and log as well? I haven't found anything on what these permissions should be and would appreciate any pointers if the knowledge exists out there. . .
In the past I was running the init start/stop via sudo - would that mess things up? I was chastised about using sudo when shell'd in as backuppc before, so I've been mostly working from the sysadmin account created installing the OS, since backuppc's rights are so restricted. . .
Thanks again for your ongoing help and patience with my learning curve. . .
