When I try to start BackupPC with "sudo systemctl restart backuppc" on my CentOS-7 server (running kernel 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64) I get the following error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG
2015-09-26 13:58:14 Reading hosts file 2015-09-26 13:58:14 unix bind() failed: No such file or directory
This message occurs in the Perl script /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC :
my $sockFile = "/var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock"; unlink($sockFile); if ( !bind(SERVER_UNIX, sockaddr_un($sockFile)) ) { print(LOG $bpc->timeStamp, "unix bind() failed: $!\n"); exit(1); }
As far as I can see (I'm no guru) this is trying to open a unix socket with the name /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock .
There is no directory /var/run/BackupPC/ on my server. When I create this, setting backuppc.apache as owner, and run "sudo systemctl restart backuppc" I see in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG that BackupPC has (at long last) started