On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 09:03 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> You used the package in the Lucid (10.04) repository, correct?

It was too old, so I installed from source (downloaded the archive from
the BackupPC project page).

> Are you sure that the backuppc user has the necessary keys? Or is it using
> your forwarded keys while you are logged in via a terminal?

I created separate keys for the backuppc user, like I always do.

> Is perl-suid installed?

Yes it is.

> Alternately, install the backuppc 3.2.1 package directly from Precise
> (12.04). I'm running two Lucid servers with that package and it works fine.
> It replaces the setuid script with a setuid binary helper that calls the
> script.

Thanks for the tip.  Downloaded and installed (after moving out of the
way the previous source installation).  Results:

1. manual backups from cli work (as before)
2. scheduled backups fail (same error as before)
3. manual backups from web interface fail (same error as before)

The new package sets the backuppc users's home dir to /var/lib/backuppc.
That's where I put the .ssh dir and keys, and the .bashrc in which I
have the keychain config.

I haven't tried running apache as the backuppc user yet to test my
hypothesis.

Any other ideas?

Regards,

Ranbir
-- 
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12:28:19 up 5 days, 1:14, 3 users, load average: 0.37, 0.40, 0.45 



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