Re: [BackupPC-users] systemd init for version 4?

Yes, I've tested it. BackupPC always creates a PID file even in non-daemon mode (BackupPC checks it to see if another copy is running already).

I only started using systemd a week ago :), so I appreciate the suggestions. I agree the PIDFile isn't needed, but it does remove it if BackupPC isn't running, which is a small bit of useful housekeeping.

I am hoping to get 4.1.0 out soon. I decided to make the next version 4.1.0 instead of 4.0.1 since there are a couple of new features (BackupPC_migrateV3toV4, new CSS from Ernesto, systemd config, changes to configure.pl) and one relatively significant bug fix (exponential expiry of backups from Alexander), in addition to several more minor bug fixes (fixing umask, nmblookup hosts in rsync, more robust checking that IO::Dirent works, better handing of empty reference counts per backup by BackupPC_refCntUpdate, fixing exit status in UserCommandRun(), BackupPC exit 0 following SIGTERM, etc).

There are two open issues (#64 and #65) that I haven't been able to replicate that ideally I'd like to root cause before releasing. I have open suggestions to each reporter to help debug. Does anyone else have open 4.x issues (other than local config etc)?

Craig

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Craig Barratt <[email protected].net> wrote:
I just pushed to git (https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/commit/51e579bae854ec78573cff9c3ff36ee589286502) these changes:
BackupPC exits with status 0 on TERM signal
systemd file now uses Type=simple, dropped the -d, and TERM signal to terminate
Have you tested it? I noticed you didn't drop the PIDFile... Does BackupPC create one whether -d is specified or not?

A patch against 4.0.0 would be great unless there's a forthcoming 4.0.1 release?

Thanks,
Richard

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