Re: [BackupPC-users] error : Can't connect to server (unix connect: No such file or directory)

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Dan D Niles writes:

> Les Mikesell writes:
>  > 
>  > I haven't peeked at the code, but I'd guess that it is checking
>  > that the programs exist so it can give a reasonable error message
>  > at startup time instead of waiting until some backup run needs
>  > it (remember that you can override $Conf{XferMethod} in a per-pc
>  > config file while inheriting $Conf{SmbClientPath} from the main
>  > file).  You can either change the $Conf{SmbClientPath} entry to
>  > something like /bin/false or make a dummy executable file for
>  > /usr/bin/smbclient.
> 
> It is only checking it because the main config.pl line (by default)
> has:
> 
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
> 
> Change this to 'rsync' and it will stop chekcing for it.  Better yet,
> comment the line out in the main config.pl so that it must be defined
> in the per host config.pl.

Actually, Les is right: BackupPC checks most of the executable paths
in config.pl when it first starts to avoid errors later.

So if smbclient doesn't exist, the correct fix is to set:

    $Conf{SmbClientPath} = undef;

Craig