Fail to start bacula director with systemctl. SOLVED.

06-30-2012, 07:36 PM

On 30/06/12 02:35, Bill Shirley wrote:

Is there any information in /var/log/messages or bacula's log?

Nothing decisive.

What does 'Starting bacula-dir manually' mean? From systemd vs upon boot?

From the command line launch bacula-dir

However, I've solved the problem. When launching bacula-dir this way it runs
under userID and groupID root. In /etc/sysconfig/bacula-dir they are both set to
bacula. Changing those values to root causes bacula-dir to start correctly.

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06-30-2012, 07:41 PM

Am 30.06.2012 21:36, schrieb Erik P. Olsen:
> On 30/06/12 02:35, Bill Shirley wrote:
>> Is there any information in /var/log/messages or bacula's log?
>
> Nothing decisive.
>>
>> What does 'Starting bacula-dir manually' mean? From systemd vs upon boot?
>
> From the command line launch bacula-dir
>
> However, I've solved the problem. When launching bacula-dir this way it runs under userID and groupID root. In
> /etc/sysconfig/bacula-dir they are both set to bacula. Changing those values to root causes bacula-dir to start
> correctly.

this is NOT a solution
NEVER let any service run as ROOT
really NEVER!

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06-30-2012, 08:05 PM

On 06/30/2012 12:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

this is NOT a solution
NEVER let any service run as ROOT
really NEVER!

Yes! These services create special user/group combos to use because
they have to be owned by some regular user without special privileges to
limit the potential damage a bug can cause. Running them as root
bypasses that protection, just as logging into a GUI as root does.

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