Re: Problem using HDUP

[On 02 Jan, @13:30, nigel.gree wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Problem using  ..."]
> Miek,
> A very Happy New Year to you as well.
> Hope you had a good one.

I sure did :) 

> Say I configured on the remote machine a backup directory 
> of:
> /home/users/myuser
> 
> By adding a few printfs to the code I found that HDUP effectively 
> performs the following mkdir commands on the remote machine:
> mkdir /home
> mkdir 
> /home/users
> mkdir /home/users/myuser
> 
> The problem is the ownership of the "home" 
> directory, which is root:root with no write access to this directory for normal 
> users.
> 
> Hence a "mkdir /home" command results in an "Permission denied" error.   I think HDUP 
> is looking for an "Already exists" error, which is why it is declaring a fatal error at
> that 
> point.

ah, sloppy... I will fix it right away,

> My workaround for now is to ensure that I always log onto the remote machine as root, 
> which keeps hdup happy.  
> 
> With regard to the date dependency, that was a red herring.
> I 
> trawled through the log and found that daily and weekly were clashing towards the end of
> the 
> month which resulted in a separate error.   Modifications to my crontab to space out the
> daily 
> and weekly processes should sort this one out.

the new example crontab already has these changes in it. This resulted from a
discussion we had a few weeks ago on this list.

grtz Miek