On 31/01/06, Arthur Emerson III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've switched to 1.38.5-4 in the hopes of resolving the volume > > management problems I've been having. > [snip] > > > I built these RPMs on a CentOS 4 system with... > > > > rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_centos4 1" --define "build_mysql 1" > > --define "build_mysql4 1" /home/wmcdonald/bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm > [snip] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# /etc/bacula/bacula status > > bacula-sd (pid 19307) is running... > > bacula-fd (pid 19312) is running... > > bacula-dir dead but pid file exists > > When I did the upgrade from 1.38.2 to 1.38.5-2 on my RHEL4.2 > system via rpmbuild, there were a few gotchas that stopped > the director from starting. One was that /etc/sysconfig/bacula > needed these lines: > > DIR_USER="bacula" > DIR_GROUP="disk"
I didn't have an /etc/sysconfig/bacula, created one with the contents as specified and still experienced the same problem. > The others were file permissions on /etc/bacula and it's contents, > /var/bacula and it's contents, and I think the directory where > those pid files above were stored. Now I'm getting somewhere. I had noticed that something had changed with /var/bacula but hadn't twigged. I have a broken link in /var/log/bacula to /var/bacula/log. > This is all due to the well-documented change of default behavior > some place between 1.38.2 and 1.38.5, where the RPM's are installed > running as non-root users by default instead of running as root > in the past. Apologies, I haven't been following the list particularly closely. Again, I did notice the change to running as a less privileged user but hadn't joined the dots. I kinda expected to see something obvious in the strace if it was permissions/ownership and perhaps it's in there and I just missed it. > Don't have a clue if this is your problem or not, but figured > that it's be a good place to start... chown -R bacula:bacula /etc/bacula ... solved the problem. I can see from a clean install on a test system the defaults are generally root:bacula and a few root:disk though so I'll re-install and pay more attention to ownership. But I'm over the hump and have the Director running. Thanks for the pointers Arthur, really appreciated. Will. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
