On Tuesday 04 April 2006 22:37, Will McDonald wrote:
> On 04/04/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > No, I haven't. This is a purely RPM install. I grabbed the SRPM
> > > bacula-1.38.5-4.src.rpm and rebuilt it for CentOS4 (effectively
> > > RHEL4).
> >
> > Did one of the binary rpms install the rescue directory?
>
> Yep. The bacula-client RPM on the client system. There are some
> comments in the SPEC file changelog to the effect bacula-rescue was
> added/removed a few times and searching through the SPEC it appears
> bacula-rescue's obseleted by either bacula-client or bacula-mysql (and
> sqlite and postgresql) depending which you require.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qf /etc/bacula/rescue/
> bacula-client-1.38.5-4
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qil bacula-client | grep rescue
> /etc/bacula/rescue
> /etc/bacula/rescue/Makefile
> /etc/bacula/rescue/Makefile.in
> [snip]
> /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula/bin/bacula-fd
>
> It's in the RPM seemingly!
>
> Aha! It's there on one of the other hosts, so I must've deleted it on
> my initial test host by stupidly doing a "make clean" or something at
> some stage.
>
> > If that is the case, then there is something wrong with the spec file
> > when it builds the rescue code. It should do a configure and create the
> > bin directory.
>
> I'm guessing the SPEC's fine, the first time it choked when I tried to
> create the rescue environment because I wasn't doing it correctly. A
> "make clean" to get me back to the starting point got me further back
> than that by cleaning up the bacula/bin dir.
>
> > Hmmm. It looks like it also forgot to configure the rescue directory
> > although that may not be totally necessary if it create the appropriate
> > file in one of the subdirectories -- it is called something like
> > "rpm-release".
>
> Yep, there's a 0 byte rpm_release in /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom.
>
> > Given the problems you were having I assumed you had loaded from source,
> > but it looks like the rpm is broken. If I remember correctly, I made the
> > 1.38.5 rpm or perhaps it was 1.38.4 -- I forget now.
>
> I think it may well have been me breaking a working rescue environment
> with a careless "make clean". I'll remove and reinstall the RPM on my
> test host and go from there.
>
> Thanks for the help!
OK, I'm pleased to see that the rpm works as it should. Building the Rescue
CD is another problem -- hopefully it will work. I suspect CentOS is close
enough to Fedora that it should. In any case, IMO it is well worth the
effort if ever you have problems.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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