Bacula-client service fails to start on boot

[Steve Evans]

I find that the bacula client fails to restart after a reboot on 2.1 because it can't find the /var/db/bacula directory.

The fix was to modify /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bacula-fd.sh to create this directory.

#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/sysutils/bacula-server/files/bacula-fd.in,v 1.9 2012/12/16 16:36:39 svnexp Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: bacula_fd
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
# KEYWORD: shutdown
#
# Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf.local or /etc/rc.conf
# to enable this service:
#
# bacula_fd_enable  (bool):  Set to YES by default.
#               Set it to YES to enable bacula_fd.
# bacula_fd_flags (params):  Set params used to start bacula_fd.
#

. /etc/rc.subr

name="bacula_fd"
rcvar=${name}_enable
command=/usr/pbi/bacula-i386/sbin/bacula-fd

load_rc_config $name

: ${bacula_fd_enable="YES"}
: ${bacula_fd_flags=" -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/pbi/bacula-i386/etc/bacula-fd.conf"}
: ${bacula_fd_pidfile="/var/run/bacula-fd.9102.pid"}

pidfile="${bacula_fd_pidfile}"

# This directory is missing on boot
mkdir /var/db/bacula

run_rc_command "$1"

Seems odd that this hasn't been reported elsewhere. Could there be something awry with my config?

Steve

[phil.davis]

It is a bug on nanoBSD. I installed it on a 2.1-RC2 test system and somewhere in the unpacking of the PBI and the install it happily created /var/db/bacula
But /var is a memory file system on nanoBSD. After a reboot, /var/db/bacula is gone and there is no code anywhere to create it.
It should work OK on full installs, where /var persists across boot.

[dvl]

This problem remains on 2.1.5-RELEASE

I just countered it:

[2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.unixathome.org]/etc(14): /usr/pbi/bacula-amd64/sbin/bacula-fd -d 10 -f -c /usr/pbi/bacula-amd64/etc/bacula-fd.conf
18-Oct 12:02 -fd: ERROR TERMINATION at util.c:871
Working Directory: "/var/db/bacula" not found. Cannot continue.

[dvl]

My fix:

mkdir /usr/local/bacula/
chown bacula:bacula /usr/local/bacula

Run vipw from the command line and adjust the home directory for bacula to be the above mentioned directory.

That is insufficient to get the correct WorkingDirectory value in bacula-fd.conf file.

The path, /var/db/bacula is hardcoded at https://packages.pfsense.org/packages/config/bacula-client/bacula-client.inc

Is that the problem?  I believe so.  If I edit /usr/local/pkg/bacula-client.inc and put the new path in there, the correct configuration is saved.

In addition, all instances of BACULA_LOCALBASE . /etc/bacula-fd.conf in /usr/local/pkg/bacula-client.inc needs to be BACULA_LOCALBASE . /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf

NOW it runs:

[2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.unixathome.org]/cf(110): ps auwx | grep bacula
root    6659  0.0  0.3 28864  5756  ??  Is  12:56PM  0:00.00 /usr/pbi/bacula-amd64/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/pbi/bacula-amd64/etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf
root    9672  0.0  0.1  6088  1400  1  R+  12:56PM  0:00.00 grep bacula

In addition, the code seems to append -dir to the Director Name via pkg_edit.php?xml=bacula-client.xml&act=edit&id=0

Hope this helps to fix this bug.