Re: [BackupPC-devel] Posible bug

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

Marc,

Ok; if you wait until the next wakeup, the old status should be removed.
Similarly if you restart BackupPC.

Craig

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Marc Gilliatt <m.g...@li...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me.
>
> I changed the hosts name by changing  the /etc/backuppc/hosts file.
>
> And then changing it in the backuppc folder via mv old_host new_host.
>
> Looking forward to your response.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>
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> *From:* Craig Barratt via BackupPC-devel <backuppc-devel@lists.
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> *Sent:* Sunday, August 27, 2017 8:14:32 PM
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> *Cc:* Craig Barratt
> *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-devel] Posible bug
>
> Eduardo,
>
> What did you do when you said "rename the host"?  Did you manually edit
> the hosts file, and mv /TOPDIR/pc/HOST_OLD to  /TOPDIR/pc/HOST_NEW?
>
> BackupPC should remove the old status when it next reads the hosts file.
> It does that on startup, on each wakeup if the mtime has changed, when it
> receives a HUP signal, or when it receives a "server reload" command.  So
> it's possible you noticed the stuck error before any of those events
> happened.
>
> Craig
>
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Eduardo Kaftanski <ek...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I think I found a small bug...
>>
>>  How to reproduce:
>>
>> -add a host
>> -try to make a backup and fail for soem reason (in my case was ssh
>> privileges)
>> -rename the host
>>
>> The error stays and wont go away until you create a host with the
>> original name and then delete the host. I received warning mails until I
>> did this.
>>
>> I am running 3.3, I don't know if it was fixed in 4.x as I had not needed
>> to upgrade yet.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Eduardo Kaftanski
>> ed...@kd...
>> ek...@gm...
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