From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2011-09-02 20:50:35
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:32 PM, <ha...@gm...> wrote: > > Re-installed, this time without anything extra in the fstab, just letting > the package go where it wants, but in the end of the post-install script, > get a message that the hard-link test failed. > > Did I miss something in uninstalling that may have interfered with the > re-install? > > Could I please get a pointer to what the permissions should be on these > locations and their contents? That's actually what I was trying to get by > going through the installation again. . . 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). I think you are making things too complicate with a bunch of bind mounts. Why not just mount the partition as /var/lib/backuppc and if you want it to be self-contained, symlink other stuff there? -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |