Re: [Personalbackup-users] Gentoo installation

[Toni V. R. <t.v...@ha...>]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:28 +0100, kku wrote:
> At 14:11 18/02/2005, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just tried the CVS version of today on my Gentoo backup-server, but
> >the daemon seems not to run.
> >When I start it, it just respawns to the commandline without any warning
> >and no process is running in the background.
> 
> Can you run it with the command line option "-D 0" and "-d"
> 
>   so "./personalbackupd -D 0 -d"

Fata-Morgana personalbackup # ./personalbackupd -D 0 -d
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
lib/PBDatabase.pm line 20.
DBI connect('dbname=;host=127.0.0.1;port=5432','postgres',...) failed:
FATAL:  database "host=127.0.0.1" does not exist at lib/PBDatabase.pm
line 20
Died at lib/PBUtils.pm line 35.

Problem with Perl? I checked all the CPAN modules and all are installed
OK:

cpan> install CGI CGI::Cookie CGI::Session Date::ISO Date::Leapyear DBI
DBD::CSV DBD::Pg GD::Graph::bars3d Getopt::Long Pod::Usage
Filesys::SmbClient HTML::Template POSIX URI::Escape Sys::Syslog
Net::LDAP
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:46:02 GMT
CGI is up to date.
CGI::Cookie is up to date.
CGI::Session is up to date.
Date::ISO is up to date.
Date::Leapyear is up to date.
DBI is up to date.
DBD::CSV is up to date.
DBD::Pg is up to date.
GD::Graph::bars3d is up to date.
Getopt::Long is up to date.
Pod::Usage is up to date.
Filesys::SmbClient is up to date.
HTML::Template is up to date.
POSIX is up to date.
URI::Escape is up to date.
Sys::Syslog is up to date.
Net::LDAP is up to date.


> >Any clue where to start looking? Database is OK. Webserver is OK (I get
> >an empty page with a title 'Backup folder definer'.
> 
> 
> Hmm... that does not seem to be correct. You should see a page what title 
> "PersonalBackup center <your sitename>"

The daemon isn't running yet (see above error), so that might explain
the difference. No?


> >The init.d script can be easily modified for Gentoo, so if you need one,
> >just ask.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >PS: If you need a Gentoo based tester, just ask :-)
> 
> 
> That would be great! I currently did not have the time yet to start on this 
> topic.

My planning to set up a backup server is already 6 months old, only I
start to impement it now (time is sold out in 5 minutes here ;-)

I'll let you know what the needed changes are for Gentoo, and eventually
I'll try to create an ebuild too.

Regards,
-- 
Van Remortel Toni
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