Fabian Arrotin wrote: >> This message occurs in the Perl script >> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC : >> >> my $sockFile = "/var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock"; >> unlink($sockFile); if ( !bind(SERVER_UNIX, sockaddr_un($sockFile)) >> ) { print(LOG $bpc->timeStamp, "unix bind() failed: $!\n"); >> exit(1); } >> >> As far as I can see (I'm no guru) this is trying to open a unix >> socket with the name /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock . >> >> There is no directory /var/run/BackupPC/ on my server. When I >> create this, setting backuppc.apache as owner, and run "sudo >> systemctl restart backuppc" I see in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG that >> BackupPC has (at long last) started >> > > Seems a packaging issue ? From where is your rpm for backuppc coming ? >From epel . > /var/run on EL7 is in fact pointing to /run , which is tmpfs, so > packages aren't supposed to drop something there directly, or that > will be gone anyway next time your restart the machine. > Workaround for those not-yet-fixed-for-systemd-packages : man > tmpfiles.d (that will create/maintain those) I don't really understand this. The perl script wants to create /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock which it seems it cannot do unless /var/run/BackupPC/ exists. If as you say this disappears on re-booting, I don't see how this program could work. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos