On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM,  <hansbkk AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> 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 general, backuppc needs rw permission on everything, and apache
(www-data on debian/ubuntu) needs read access to some of it.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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