Craig, Rob,
I don't know if anyone else is running multiple installations against the same
software install (I hate installing software twice) but I have a small patch
against Lib.pm which supports an environment variable and a .file to allow for
peaceful coexistance of more than one instance against the same source.
I suspect it qualifies as a "hack" - if a relatively benign one - but I'm happy
to give the patch out. It's against B3 at the moment, but I will do it to the
main release as soon as I have a few minutes to get that installed.
Cheers,
David.
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Rob writes:
>
>> I run multiple instances of BackupPC, and recently attempted upgrading to
>> 3.0.
>>
>> I run the different instances as different users, and out of different
>> $TopDir directories. I'm unable to start the deamon for BackupPC2 (my 2nd
>> instance)
>>
>> So it seems to me like the $Conf{ConfDir} variable is getting ignored in the
>> conf.pl.
>
> That's correct: the one piece of information that is stored
> separately from the config.pl file is that path to the config
> file itself. That's how BackupPC finds the config file. As
> you discovered, it is stored in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm.
>
>> The BackupPC daemon fails becuase of a UID error- that's becuase it keeps
>> reading /etc/BackupPC/conf.pl and not /etc/BackupPC2/conf.pl
>> (i know this because i did an strace)
>>
>> So i decided to trace down where this variable is getting picked up. I
>> noticed in the Lib.pm code, i see that the confdir is referenced as
>> "$confDir" and not as "$ConfDir"
>>
>> I don't really know perl at all, but does this seem right?
>
> It's correct. $confDir is a function argument.
>
>> When i corrected the case on these variables, my UID problem didn't go away.
>> When i changed the (hardcoded?) /etc/BackupPC value to my intended
>> /etc/BackupPC2 everything worked fine.
>
> That's right: you have now correctly pointed your second installation
> at the second config.pl file.
>
> With FHS (the default in 3.0.0) you need to use the --config-dir
> option to configure.pl to explicitly place the config dir on the
> second installation in a new place. You manually made the right
> change.
>
> Craig
>
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