On 2019-08-03 08:24, Norman Goldstein wrote:

> Am running Fedora 30 x86-64, BP 4.3.1
> Am not able to start the BackupPC server manually.
> 
> I would like to be able to run the BC server manually, to be able to debug 
> into it.  When I do, as root:
> 
> systemctl stop backuppc
> 
> this stops the server.  Then, as user backuppc, to start the server manually:
> 
> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC
> 
> but the BP web page does not come back to life.  I kill this, and do:
> 
> systemctl start backuppc
> 
> and the BP web page comes back to life.  I checked the sysd file
> 
>> cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/backuppc.service
> 
>> [Unit]
>> Description= BackupPC server
>> After=syslog.target local-fs.target remote-fs.target
>> 
>> [Service]
>> Type=simple
>> User=backuppc
>> Group=backuppc
>> ExecStart=/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC
>> ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
>> PIDFile=/var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.pid
> so there does not seem to be anything special about invoking the BP server.  
> The same problem if I use the  -d  flag when invoking BackupPC .

Perhaps not special enough, but surely you've noticed these lines? 

User=backuppc
Group=backuppc
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