Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC web interface handing when retrieving host info, after a backup

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Norman Goldstein <no...@te...> wrote:
> I figured out the problem.
>
> The folder on the network drive, pointed to by   /var/lib/BackupPC,
> did not have rx permissions for "other".  This prevented root from
> going in there to do things.
>
> I hope no one spent too much time pondering this, and thank you for
> the time you did.
>
> BTW
> Does anyone know how the BackupPC_Admin executable is built
> from the BackupPC_Admin.pl script?
>
> -rwsr-x---. 1 backuppc apache 6468 Jan 20 11:40 BackupPC_Admin
> -rwxr-x---. 1 backuppc apache 3993 Jan 20 11:40 BackupPC_Admin.pl

What distribution/version are you running?   That looks like a suid
wrapper to start the perl script as backuppc when run under apache.

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   Les Mikesell
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