Re: Bareos in pkgsrc / Web Console?

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 27/10/2020 10:47, Matthias Petermann wrote:

> 1) /var/run is by default only writable for root. Bareos can therefore 
> not create its PID file with the bareosdir or bareossd-user and the 
> start fails. As a workaround I made /var/run writeable for the whole 
> world. I don't know if this is a good idea or if there is a more elegant 
> way for this? On other systems, I had previously created a subdirectory 
> /var/run/bareos in such cases, then made it writable for the respective 
> users and set in the configurations of the Bareos components according 
> to "pid directory". In NetBSD, however, /var/run seems to be emptied by 
> default on every reboot, which surely has good reasons and makes this 
> approach more difficult.
Have the startup script in rc.d create the /var/run/bareos directory. 
This is what I do for jenkins which has a similar problem.

> 2) It would be good to have a "best practice" logger configuration. 
> Currently Baroes cannot create its logfile in /var/log/ due to missing 
> permissions. According to [1] the messages should at least appear in the 
> syslog. I will test this again. What would be useful for most users? 
> Syslog + newsyslog configuration? Then this might be something for the 
> install message.
I think samba runs into this and you can create a /var/log/bareos 
directory with appropriate permissions. I think samba does this for 
similar reasons.

Mike