>>>>> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:51:00 -0800, Ross Boylan said: > > Clarifying: > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:18 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a BACULA job that runs a SHELL script; the script does an sudo and > > it appears > > to be waiting for a password. Cancelling the BACULA job doesn't kill it. > That is, after the cancel, bconsole status dir shows > Running Jobs: > JobId Level Name Status > ====================================================================== > 407 Increme Cyrus.2007-12-03_01.05.04 has been canceled > This is over an hour since I used bconsole to issue a cancel command. > > > > How can I kill the BACULA job? Is it safe to kill the UNIX job with the > > invoked > > shell script? > That is, the bacula job invoked a script cryus-prep, which I see running > as a Unix job. What if I kill cyrus-prep using Unix kill?
Should be safe from the Bacula side. At worst, it will continue doing the backup without the useful effects of the script. > I'm running on Linux. > > > > I tested the sudo on the command line and it did not ask for a password; > > that was in a terminal in which I did an su. In contrast, the job is > > configured with > > Run Before Job = "super cyrus-prep" > > So I think it runs as bacula, does a "super" to root, and the offending > > line in the script is trying to sudo to cyrus. I guess the environment > > created by su is sufficiently "root" that sudo doesn't ask for a > > password, but the one created by super is not "root" enough. > > > > I used super because I had problems with su and sudo asking for > > passwords; I notice a lot of advice on this list to use sudo. > > > > Can anyone recommend how I can make this work properly in the future? > > The big picture is that before the job runs I need to run as root, > > mostly, but one of the items needs to be done as user cyrus. Try configuring sudo to not prompt for a password when invoked by the username that runs the Bacula Director (probably called "bacula"). __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
