Re: [BackupPC-devel] Posible bug

[Eduardo K. <ek...@gm...>]

I renamed the host using the cgi interface.

Selected 'Edit Hosts'. Changed the name of the host and pressed 'Save'


On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-devel <
bac...@li...> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Eduardo Kaftanski
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