On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:10 PM, <hans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be >> the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose >> why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell (su -s >> /bin/bash backuppc if it doesn't have a shell configure for login). > > > What is the "same operation"? I'm not up on how to track down the > postinstall script in the install package, is it just doing an > "/etc/init.d/backuppc start"?
I mean try to create a hardlink between a file under the pc directory to under the cpool directory. su -s /bin/bash backuppc cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc touch testfile ln testfile ../cpool/testfile that should complete with no errors and then "ls -l testfile" should show a link count of 2. Backuppc does approximately the same test at startup but in perl and you may not see the real error message. Does the drive in question have a filesystem that handles hard links? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/