Jim McNamara wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) > <n...@lemonbit.com <mailto:n...@lemonbit.com>> wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Why is suexec involved? > > Les is right, you don't need suexec. Trying to use it is probably > causing your problem. > > >> [2008-12-15 10:37:00]: file is either setuid or setgid: > >> (/var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin) > > > > Yes, the config.pl script should have installed it mode 04554.any > interest (an > > It needs to be group-readable by apache, owned by backuppc and suid. > > 4550 should be enough for everybody. :o) > > Nils Breunese. > > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > There's been a ton of posts in the last few minutes, so I'll try to > respond to all of those in this reply. > > To Adam Goryachev, I don't have any interest in CentOS (and judging by > other posts in this thread, competence with it either). The company I > work for got roped in using it for an individual project, as another > vendor brought in to do the telephony portion of this project will only > work on RHEL 4.5 and luckily (for the bottom line) CentOS 4.7. I've > been strictly a Debian user since Woody, and this whole experience has > confirmed to me that my default choice was correct! > > To Les and Nils, first I'm sorry to be disparaging one of your preferred > versions of linux. I installed httpd-suexec somewhere almost immediately > after installing the OS, and it certainly appears to be the proverbial > smoking gun. I tried usung yum just to remove httpd-suexec, and it would > only do that if I also allowed yum to remove httpd! As noting else is > installed yet (the other contractor mentioned previously begins work > tomorrow), I allowed it. That went fine, it pulled out these packages - > > mod_perl, php-pear, php-odbc, mod_ssl, system-config-httpd, httpd, > httpd-manual, httpd-suexec, webalizer, php-ldap, php, and mod_python. > > I figured all would be well with this. Let it remove everything listed > above, then reinstall httpd, and hopefully the skies will brighten, > rainbows and unicorns will dance around me, and oh yes, backuppc will work! > > Unfortunately, yum won't install just httpd without httpd-suexec, as > show here - > > [r...@telephony jim]# yum install httpd > Loading "fastestmirror" plugin > Setting up Install Process > Setting up repositories > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Parsing package install arguments > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package httpd.x86_64 0:2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4 set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: httpd-suexec for package: httpd > --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package httpd-suexec.x86_64 0:2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4 set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > > Dependencies Resolved > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Installing: > httpd x86_64 2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4 > update 955 k > Installing for dependencies: > httpd-suexec x86_64 2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4 > update 31 k > > Transaction Summary > ============================================================================= > Install 2 Package(s) > Update 0 Package(s) > Remove 0 Package(s) > Total download size: 986 k > Is this ok [y/N]: n > Exiting on user Command > Complete! > > Yum clean all followed by yum update still tries to install both httpd > and httpd-suexec. > > I'm going to google to find a solution to this (clearly isn't backuppc > related), and when I can get a functional httpd, I'll post back. If > anyone has suggestions on how to accomplish this, please email me off list.
yum install httpd -x httpd-suexec We are running CentOS 5.2 backing up 37 clients so far with no major issues. rpm -qa|grep htt system-config-httpd-1.3.3.3-1.el5 httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_2.centos.4 rpm -qa | grep Back BackupPC-3.1.0-2.el5 > > Thanks again for everyone's help! > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Mark Maciolek Network Administrator Morse Hall 339 862-3050 m...@sr.unh.edu https://www.sr.unh.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
