Re: [CentOS] Is this a bug in CentOS-7 BackupPC?

Jonathan Billings wrote:

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

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I don't really understand this. The perl script wants to create /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock which it seems it cannot do unless /var/run/BackupPC/ exists. If as you say this disappears on re-booting, I don't see how this program could work.

The contents of the /etc/tmpfiles.d/BackupPC.conf file looks like this:

D /var/run/BackupPC 0775 root backuppc -

If you create that file, you'll get the /var/run/BackupPC file when you start up. I suggest filing a bug against the EPEL package if you want to get it fixed there.

Thanks very much for the explanation and suggestion. I've created that file, and will see what happens next time I re-boot.