On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: >On Wednesday 30 March 2011 10:07:11 Eric Bollengier wrote: >> Hello Philipp, >> >> Le dimanche 27 mars 2011 11:03:24, Philipp Storz a écrit : >> > Hello bacula developers, >> > >> > we found that the bacula start scripts do not start the bacula daemons >> > with the parameters for user and group. >> > As a result, the daemons always run as root/root. >> > >> > I have attached a patch that patches the template files for the start >> > scripts , so that the daemons are started correctly. >> >> Can you make a try to add the -u and -g option to the startproc program >> instead of the bacula daemon? >> >> When you have a problem such as a segfault, the process can't attach gdb to >> itself because the uid/gid changed from root to a normal user (ptrace >> problem). >> >> I don't know if suse has this problem or not, can you try the backtrace >> generation with a simple kill -ABRT $(pidof bacula-dir) ? You should find >> the backtrace file somewhere with full information. > >Philipp, > >I concur with Eric. The change you proposed will not work. One cannot fix >the problem at installation time. It must be fixed when Bacula begins >execution, and in some cases the problem may be more fundamental because log >files and cons files can be created at any time while Bacula is running.
In this case why does bacula even support -u and -g parameters? If these parameters do not work as expected they should be either fixed or removed. Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- bl...@comedia.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
