Comment 4 for bug 207527

Thank you for clearing these up.

I didn't see anywhere that indicated that I needed to change the
RunBeforeJob. This is not something I have had to do before with Bacula.

Stuart

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:12 +0000, Ante Karamatić wrote:
> "* In the make_catalog_backup_awk script there is an if statement, "if
> (catname == cat1 || catname == cat2 || catname == cat3 || catname ==
> cat4)" that guards the creation of .my.cnf and execution of mysqldump.
> On my system cat1 had the value "<CatalogName>" and catname had the
> value "MyCatalog" so the configuration file was never created and
> mysqldump never executed. -- Commented out the if statement."
>
> You should replace <CatalogName> with the name of the catalog in your
> configuration, which is, if I understand you correctly, MyCatalog. You
> have to configure RunBeforeJob correctly, before you use it.
>
> RunBeforeJob runs as 'bacula' user. Home of that user is
> /var/lib/bacula. mysql client reads ~/.my.cnf, which in case of bacula
> user is /var/lib/bacula. If you run it as root, it would appear that it
> doesn't work. Beside that, you'll have problems with root-owned files in
> /var/lib/bacula.
>