>-----Original Message----- >From: Tony Molloy [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:56 PM >To: [email protected]; General list for user discussion, questions and >support >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC > >On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:20:05 Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Pascal Bourdais [mailto:[email protected]] >> >Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:04 PM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Testing the mail function from BackupPC >> > >> >su - backuppc >> >> Already tried that, same thing happens: >> >> r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# su - backuppc >> r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u > >You're still root!! > >> [email protected] /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail: Wrong user: my >> userid is 0, instead of 150 (backuppc) > ^^^^^^ > >definately still root > >> Please su backuppc first >> BackupPC::Lib->new failed >> r...@mach012 ~/ [0]# >> > >On my machine > >[r...@shannon ~]# >[r...@shannon ~]# su - backuppc >[backu...@shannon ~]$ > >see changed user to backuppc > >[backu...@shannon ~]$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u >[email protected] >Sending test email using /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f backuppc > >[backu...@shannon ~]$ grep root /etc/passwd >root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > >[backu...@shannon ~]$ grep backuppc /etc/passwd >backuppc:x:490:490: BackupPC User :/home/backuppc:/bin/bash > >I suspect your backuppc user is not set up correctly. In my case it's got a >uid of 490 and is a login account
The BackupPC installer sets the backuppc account up with nologin (no GUI login). In /etc/passwd the shell is /bin/false, so no GUI login allowed, but it should allow one to su in as backuppc. I solved that by adding the "-s /bin/bash", as per the previous post. Now I can su properly to backuppc. The problem *now* is that /bin/mail doesn't understand the "-t" switch. As I mentioned, I can't find anything about this t parameter in man mail, but in the /usr/bin/BackupPC_SendEmail script the t parameter is mentioned as something that " -t display the emails that would be sent, without sending them". To me this is rather cryptic, and I don't quite understand the why's, what's and where's of this alluring "-t" and how I fix this. Grateful for any help! Thanks. -- /Sorin
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