It seemed to me like a bug in the makefile. How should I report it? Or
perhaps one of the devs could pick it up?
dbcheck is also affected. This prevents the dir startup script from running.
It all seems to be working now with these changes made.
Chris.
On Tue, 12 Apr 2022, 11:37 am Martin Simmons, <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote:
> That sounds like a bug. The Makefile actually contains comments about
> this,
> so someone was thinking about it:
>
> # Allow non-root execution of bsmtp for non-root Directors
> install: $(INSTOOLS)
> @for tool in ${INSTOOLS} ; do \
> $(LIBTOOL_INSTALL) $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$tool
> $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/$$tool ; \
> done
> # chattr +i $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/bsmtp
> # chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/bsmtp
>
> __Martin
>
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:10:38 +0100, Chris Wilkinson said:
> >
> > Just a final note on this. I found that bsmtp was installed with
> root:root
> > 750 permissions. The effect of this was that emails were not sent,
> > presumably because dir runs as user bacula. There were no errors shown or
> > logged in any of the logs so it was tricky to track down. Once I changed
> > bsmtp to 755, mail began to work.
> >
> > The other bacula utility programs are also installed as root:root, 750.
> >
> > Regards
> > Chris Wilkinson
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Apr 2022, 8:49 am Chris Wilkinson, <winstonia...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Scripts are installed in /etc/init.d but no unit files for systemd were
> > > installed. Consequently, I can start everything with the
> /usr/sbin/bacula
> > > script but "systemctl start bacula-xxx.service" won't work. These
> service
> > > files seem to be in the source tar but don't get installed.
> > >
> > > I had added user bacula to sudoers and as a member of the sudo group
> > > whilst trying to debug this but that was dead end which I should undo
> now.
> > >
> > > Best
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2022, 11:19 pm Martin Simmons, <mar...@lispworks.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> That looks OK, but how are you running the startup scripts? You
> mentioned
> > >> sudo before, but they should be run directly as root.
> > >>
> > >> __Martin
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >>>>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:40:04 +0100, Chris Wilkinson said:
> > >> >
> > >> > These are the ./configure flags I used. This puts the desired daemon
> > >> > user/group in the startup scripts. I didn't find a --with option to
> set
> > >> the
> > >> > daemon executable permissions that defaults to 750.
> > >> >
> > >> > #compile
> > >> > cd $target/bacula-$ver
> > >> > PREFIX=/usr/sbin
> > >> > CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
> > >> > ./configure \
> > >> > --bindir=/usr/bin \
> > >> > --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
> > >> > --docdir=/usr/html \
> > >> > --htmldir=/usr/html \
> > >> > --enable-smartalloc \
> > >> > --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula/scripts \
> > >> > --with-working-dir=/var/lib/bacula \
> > >> > --with-pid-dir=/var/run/bacula \
> > >> > --with-logdir=/var/log/bacula \
> > >> > --with-postgresql \
> > >> > --with-archivedir=/mnt/usb \
> > >> > --with-job-email=root@localhost \
> > >> > --with-dump-email=root@localhost \
> > >> > --with-hostname=pi-b \
> > >> > --with-db-name=bacula \
> > >> > --with-db-user=bacula \
> > >> > --with-db-password=++++ \
> > >> > --with-dir-user=bacula \
> > >> > --with-dir-group=bacula \
> > >> > --with-fd-user=root \
> > >> > --with-fd-group=root \
> > >> > --with-sd-user=bacula \
> > >> > --with-sd-group=tape
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Regards
> > >> > Chris Wilkinson
> > >> >
> > >> > On Fri, 1 Apr 2022, 12:47 pm Martin Simmons, <mar...@lispworks.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > >>>>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 21:29:56 +1100, Gary R Schmidt said:
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > On 01/04/2022 21:13, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> > >> > > > > I built this from source and found it would not run due to a
> > >> > > permissions
> > >> > > > > error with the daemons bacula-* and dbcheck. It seems the make
> > >> builds
> > >> > > > > them with permissions 750, root:root. I run the director as
> > >> > > > > bacula:bacula, the fd as root:root and sd as bacula:tape. User
> > >> bacula
> > >> > > is
> > >> > > > > a member of the sudo group. Changing the daemons and dbcheck
> to
> > >> 755
> > >> > > > > fixed this.
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > Does that suggest the make is in error or maybe my choices of
> what
> > >> > > user
> > >> > > > > to run the daemons as is incorrect?
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > NOTE: I've not built on Raspian, but it looks like you've
> missed the
> > >> > > > "--with-XXX-user=" options to configure.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > In particular, the permissions are designed for the daemons to be
> > >> started
> > >> > > as
> > >> > > root, with the -u and -g options controlling the user and group.
> The
> > >> > > default
> > >> > > startup scripts do this using information from the configure.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > __Martin
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > _______________________________________________
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> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> >
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