On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 00:18 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi. > > David Clymer wrote: > > ... > > When I try to run the director as the bacula user, it just fails to run > > without displaying any error messages or a non-zero exit code. > > How are the access rights for all the files the director needs? > > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Probably, but I don't know what :-) > > If the file rights are ok, you are sure you actually run the newly built > version, and all the other obvious stuff you might try running the > director unter strace (or gdb, if you know how to use that). > > strace usually gives me helpful hints without much knowledge about > program's internals. > > Somewhat towards strace's output I usually find what operations did not > succeed. >
I had just circumvented this problem by installing the newly released debian package for 1.36.2, which just worked. When another user emailed with a similar problem, I went back and figured it out. So, for anyone else who hates finding unconcluded threads in mailing list archives...here's the solution: It was a permissions problem after all. Files in the bacula working directory (/usr/local/var/bacula/working, in my case) were owned by root, and bacula (running as the bacula user) did not have permission to write to them. I found this out by doing that which I should have done in the first place: I ran bacula-dir using the debuging switch: gorilla:/usr/local/src/bacula-1.36.2# bacula-dir -d99 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf -u bacula -g bacula bacula-dir: dird.c:131 Debug level = 99 bacula-dir: postgresql.c:166 pg_real_connect done bacula-dir: postgresql.c:168 db_user=bacula db_name=bacula db_password=bacula 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at message.c:262 Could not open console message file /usr/local//var/bacula/working/gorilla-dir.conmsg: ERR=Permission denied 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: Error: message.c:684 fopen /usr/local//var/bacula/working/gorilla-dir.mail.gorilla-dir.135034776 failed: ERR=Permission denied 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: Error: message.c:722 fopen /usr/local//var/bacula/working/log failed: ERR=Permission denied 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: Error: message.c:722 fopen /usr/local//var/bacula/working/log failed: ERR=Permission denied 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: Error: message.c:684 fopen /usr/local//var/bacula/working/gorilla-dir.mail.gorilla-dir.135034776 failed: ERR=Permission denied 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: Error: message.c:684 fopen /usr/local//var/bacula/working/gorilla-dir.mail.gorilla-dir.135034776 failed: ERR=Permission denied 15-Apr 11:47 gorilla-dir: Error: message.c:722 fopen /usr/local//var/bacula/working/log failed: ERR=Permission denied Tada! My problem was revealed in all its all its glory. A quick change of ownership did the trick: chown -R bacula /usr/local/var/bacula -davidc -- Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE) ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
