Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?

2009-01-15 15:37:48
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:33:13 GMT
>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:15:01 -0800, Kevin Keane said:
> 
> In my configuration, the bacula-dir and bacula-sd both run as user 
> bacula rather than root, as recommended.
> 
> Now I am trying to run a Run Before script that includes wget to a 
> password-protected site. The user name and password are in a .netrc 
> file. It doesn't work - wget does not use the user name and password 
> stored from the .netrc file. Apparently, the Run Before Job script is 
> using root's environment and home directory even when running as user 
> "bacula". Consequently, .netrc is unreadable to the script.
> 
> Is there a way to work around this without putting the user name and 
> password into the script itself?

If wget is using $HOME to find the home directory, then you'll need to set
that in the run before script to make it work.

__Martin

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