[CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade

Fri Jul 4 01:24:46 UTC 2008
Ben <abnormaliti at clivepeeters.com.au>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Ben wrote:
>> For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 
>> x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start.
>>
>> "sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start" return OK but there is no BackupPC 
>> processes.
>>
>> This fails also.
>> # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d
>> # echo $?
>> 0
>>
>> This succeeds, but of course does not fork.
>> # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC
>>
>> So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into 
>> the background.
>>
>> I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything 
>> is fine.
>>
>> Nothing appears in the LOG.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> Ben
>
> I am running backuppc on 3 CentOS-5.2 machines (and several more on 
> CentOS-4.6 machines).
>
> I had no issues after upgrading to 5.2 on those machines.

Good to hear.

Are they i386 or x86_64?  Are they using 3.0 or 3.1?

Ben