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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 2.2.0 fails to start, pidfile
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A copy to ports@

On 16 Aug 2007 at 18:10, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

> [crossposting out of impatience, sorry for that]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded our bacula-server from 1.3.8 to version 2.2.0 using
> portupgrade.
> 
> Now bacula-dir fails to start:
> Could not open pid file. /var/run/bacula-dir.9101.pid ERR=Permission
> denied
> 
> I assume it tries to start as the "bacula" user, but /var/run is not
> writable. Common practice seems to be to create a writable
> subdirectory 
> instead, as in /var/run/bacula.
> 
> Anyone has a fix for this? Maybe a configuration directive would do
> it?

See http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=923

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