BackupPC error

[Reid Rivenburgh]

Ah, that's a good point, those two lines of the LOG file may not be
related, which would be misleading.  I should check if any sockets are
being created.  Thanks for the tip.

Reid

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, j.e.aneiros <jesus.aneiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I never have used BackupPC software but for me the problem is not the
> hosts file.
> I think the program is trying to open a UNIX socket file and for some reason
> (the directory where the file should reside no longer exists or some
> permission problems) is failing.
> I was able to replicate you problem with a program of my own trying to
> create UNIX socket in a directory that doesn't exist:
> [root at localhost ~]# vi echos.c
> [root at localhost ~]# ./echos
> bind: No such file or directory
> The offended lines of code:
> if (bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&local, len) == -1) {
>                 perror("bind");
>                 exit(1);
> }
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.  I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for
>> years.  I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC
>> failed to start.  Its log file has this:
>>
>> 2011-08-11 08:00:25 Reading hosts file
>> 2011-08-11 08:00:25 unix bind() failed: No such file or directory
>>
>> But the hosts file exists.  I haven't touched it in a long time.
>>
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 backuppc backuppc 2301 Jan 12  2011 /etc/BackupPC/hosts
>>
>> The version of BackupPC I'm running is BackupPC-3.2.1-1.fc15.x86_64.
>> Does anyone have any hints about why it's failing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Reid
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