Bug 485545

Summary: bacula-client missing /var/lib/bacula and /var/run/bacula directories
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Florian <trailtotale>
Component: baculaAssignee: Andreas Thienemann <andreas>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: andreas, fschwarz, gwync, mmcgrath, trailtotale
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Description John Florian 2009-02-14 03:05:35 UTC
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If bacula-client is installed without bacula-server (because that's on another host), the file daemon cannot be started because it's looking for the /var/lib/bacula directory which does not exist.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install bacula-client on a host that has no bacula packages installed already
2. I configured the file daemon, but this is probably not necessary to witness the problem.
3. Attempt to start the bacula-fd service; note the error.
Actual Results:  
service bacula-fd start                                                                              
Starting bacula-fd: 13-Feb 21:24 myhost-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at util.c:709                           
Working Directory: "/var/lib/bacula" not found. Cannot continue.                                                    
                                                           [FAILED]

Expected Results:  
Daemon should start w/o errors, of course.

bacula-client-2.4.4-1.fc10.i386
bacula-sysconfdir-2.4.4-1.fc10.i386
bacula-common-2.4.4-1.fc10.i386

Comment 1 John Florian 2009-02-14 03:33:48 UTC
For a work around, I did:
mkdir -p /var/lib/bacula

The daemon still wouldn't start however, but the error message was now gone.  The new failure was rather silent, or at least I couldn't see it logged anywhere.  So, I added '-d 125' to the init script to start it with debugging mode enabled.  (BTW, the man page doesn't show this, but running the daemon with --help does.  Also, the init script will attempt to source /etc/sysconfig/bacula-fd, but there's no way to append options as the init script is presently written.)

Anyway, enabling the debugging mode revealed that I needed to also create /var/run/bacula.  At that point, I was able to start the file daemon and reach it from the director.

Comment 2 John Florian 2009-02-14 03:39:33 UTC
This patch makes it possible provide additional start options via /etc/sysconfig/bacula-fd that is already being sourced.

--- /etc/init.d/bacula-fd-orig  2009-02-13 22:36:30.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/init.d/bacula-fd       2009-02-13 22:37:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 RETVAL=0
 prog="bacula-fd"
 CONFIG="/etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf"
-OPTS="-c $CONFIG"
+OPTS="-c $CONFIG $OPTS"

 checkconf() {
        # Check if we still have our @@PLACEHOLDERS@@ in the config.

Comment 3 Andreas Thienemann 2009-02-14 10:19:39 UTC
Thanks for the report.

Looking into it.

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