On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:30:12 +0100, Sylvain wrote: > 2012/3/7 Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com>: >> Anyway, I would have expected some kind of warning at the logs coming >> from backuppc indicating a problem for accessing to the configured >> mount point which was not available at that time and thus failing. > > Me too, and I didn't understand why I wasn't getting anything in the > logs until now: the default LogDir (/var/lib/backuppc/log/) is in a > subdirectory of the TopDir (/var/lib/backuppc/), which means that if the > TopDir doesn't exist, backuppc won't be able to log the error in LogDir. > So in order to check the logs to find out what the problem is you first > have to solve the problem. :-)
There is "/var/log/syslog" for that kind of purpose. Why is not used, I can't tell :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jj7kpu$ujn$7...@dough.gmane.org