mph,
Yes, that appears to be an old init.d script. And, yes, IncrLevel is no
longer present in 4.0.0.
None of the recent 3.x.x or 4.0.0 init.d scripts include that code.
Craig
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Michael Huntley <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I noticed that BackupPC would not start and gave a very cryptic message:
>
> BackupPC cannot be started because important parameters are missing from
> config.pl.
> If you just upgraded BackupPC, please update /etc/backuppc/config.pl.
>
> I noticed in the init script there is a grep for IncrLevel. If it's
> missing BackupPC will not start. Since v4 is using reverse deltas there
> isn't a need for this, is there? (The setting is missing from v4
> documentation.)
>
> Is this a hold-over from v2 to v3 upgrade?
>
> For expediency I removed the check from my init script.
>
> check_old_config()
> {
> BAD=0
> CONF=/etc/backuppc/config.pl
>
> grep -q IncrLevel $CONF || BAD=1
>
> if [ "$BAD" = "1" ]; then
> echo "BackupPC cannot be started because important parameters
> are missing from config.pl."
> echo "If you just upgraded BackupPC, please update
> /etc/backuppc/config.pl."
> exit 1
> fi
> }
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> mph
>
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