From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 18 03:01:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220D216A417 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from supernews.unixathome.org (supernews.unixathome.org [216.168.29.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E867713C45B for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:01:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA61E17055; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:42:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from supernews.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (supernews.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LelOT-421SU9; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:42:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [76.110.86.209]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9AC17042; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:42:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381E6B887; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:35:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Howard Goldstein Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:42:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <46C62462.14016.D123F96@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <46C63223.6090203@queue.to> References: <46C476F2.3050401@intersonic.se>, <46C44648.17419.5C6B5DD@dan.langille.org>, <46C63223.6090203@queue.to> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 2.2.0 fails to start, pidfile X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:01:12 -0000 On 17 Aug 2007 at 19:41, Howard Goldstein wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > 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 > > > > Could you share the gist of what's at that link (does it have a fix?) > Strangely enough that's a registration site. The bug. It's been fixed in the latest version in ports. To view details of the bug, use anonymous/anonymous. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php