BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Parity (par2) command running on archives even though set to 0

2012-03-20 11:03:11
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Parity (par2) command running on archives even though set to 0
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:01:56 -0500
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> >
> > It's a longstanding bug that some things that should advance the
> > timeout don't.  I'm not sure if anyone has ever tried to track it down
> > or if it is just elusive.
>
> Yeah.  What's weird is that the output of the par2 command is clearly being 
> logged by BackupPC.  I'm really surprised that the log output isn't enough to 
> cause BackupPC to reset its timer.
>
> My Perl-fu is relatively weak, but I'll try to take a stab at it...  If 
> anyone has any suggestions on where to look, I'm all ears!  :)

The places where it works, it should be doing a
alarm($conf->{ClientTimeout})
to set/advance the timer.   But you need to find the places where it
doesn't do this...

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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