[Bacula-users] bacula 2.2.0 fails to start, pidfile

[Dan Langille]

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.

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