I forgot to say this: all of my targets have static IP addresses. If you're
saying I don't need nmblookup since the server and the clients all have
static IPs, why am I getting the perl error?

On 29 April 2010 22:44, Omair Khan <omair.adil.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> So I tried running BackupPC by going to /usr/share/backuppc/bin and
> manually starting ./BackupPC. I also tried running it
> with /etc/init.d/backuppc start but got the same error both times:
>
> proton01:~# Starting backuppc: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error:
> usr/lib/perl5/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol:
> Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
>
>
> I'm so confused now. I reinstalled the perl package but that didn't solve
> the problem either. How do I get around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Omair
>
>
> On 28 April 2010 15:26, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/29/2010 5:09 PM, Omair Khan wrote:
>> > I took your advice, Les, and re-installed the passwd package to get
>> > chfn. I found how to do this specifically on the ReadyNAS at
>> >
>> http://www.blog.vacs.fr/index.php?post/2009/03/22/Installing-Mysql-server-on-a-ReadyNAS-duo
>> .
>> > I then reinstalled BackupPC (apt-get install --reinstall
>> > backuppc). However, now I get the following error:
>> >
>> > Starting backuppc: 2010-04-29 17:48:39 $Conf{NmbLookupPath} =
>> > '/usr/bin/nmblookup' is not a valid executable program
>> > invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed.
>> >
>> >
>> > I found that nmblookup was part of the samba package, so I reinstalled
>> > samba but got the same error. I thought that I might need to chmod
>> > nmblookup to be executable but the file/directory isn't anywhere on my
>> > computer.
>>
>> Does it land in some other directory? If your targets have DNS names or
>> static IPs you could probably get by without it - it is only needed for
>> windows name lookups.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Les Mikesell
>> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>>
>
>
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