Backup script issues

[SSS]

I'm trying to get the Simple Shell Script Method from HERE working on my server.

I've kept the script the same except for altering the backup folder directory

The problem is, when I run it as root (testing it out see if it'll be ok with CRON) it all seems to run ok, but after the backup is complete I su to the zimbra account and do a zmcontrol status check and it says that the stats module is stopped.

I can stop/start Zimbra as the zimbra user OK, it's just that doing it from sudo causes stats to not start.

Any ideas?



My other problem was trying to get the perl backup script from HERE working instead, but I seem to not have all the necessary modules installed.

First I ran "yum install perl" just to make sure it was installed. I then ran the script and it complained about some IO/Scalar.pm being missing. Did some googling then yum installed perl-IO-Stringy. The script then complained about Proc/ProcessTable.pm being missing, googled then yum installed perl-Proc-ProcessTable.

Now the script is failing saying it can't find File/Rsync.pm but I can't seem to find a perl package for that, and I'm pretty sure rsync is installed on the system anyway.

Am I missing something? Is there a perl rsync module? Are there more modules I need to install or is there a package that has all that I need in it?

Thanks for any help!

[SSS]

bump!

Any ideas

[phoenix]

Command prompt:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

answer any installation questions that it asks then at the cpan> prompt::

install  File::Rsync

The list of required modules is at the beginning of the script you're trying to run.

[SSS]

Thanks Phoenix, that solved the perl rsync issue, but the script then started complaining about needing explicit package names. This perl stuff is going way over my head

I think I'll try and get the bash script going instead.

If I run this script as the Zimbra user when the status checks runs, everything is ok and 'running'

echo Stopping Zimbra services...
zmcontrol stop
sleep 15

echo Starting Zimbra services...
zmcontrol start
sleep 15

echo Showing Zimbra services status...
zmcontrol status
echo Done!

But if I run the following script as user root, when the status check runs it says the stats module is stopped:

echo Stopping Zimbra services...
sudo -u zimbra /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol stop
sleep 15

echo Starting Zimbra services...
sudo -u zimbra /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol start
sleep 15

echo Showing Zimbra services status...
sudo -u zimbra /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol status
echo Done!

I'm a bit stumped as to why stats doesn't start up.

[phoenix]

What release of Zimbra are you using and which operating system?

[phoenix]

I think that sudo may have some problems, try the following format for the command (using su - ):

su - zimbra -c "zmcontrol start"

[dwmtractor]

Originally Posted by phoenix

I think that sudo may have some problems, try the following format for the command (using su - ):

su - zimbra -c "zmcontrol start"

Please post back if this does the trick. If it does I'll revise the script on the wiki.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by dwmtractor

Please post back if this does the trick. If it does I'll revise the script on the wiki.

I've already changed the wiki article and added a note at the end of it.

[dwmtractor]

Originally Posted by phoenix

I've already changed the wiki article and added a note at the end of it.

Thanks Bill.

Would this be a better default method since it doesn't rely on sudo at all? It hadn't occurred to me when I first played with it, do all Linux installations even include sudo?

Dan

[phoenix]

I've no idea if all distributions include sudo but if you feel that the 'su -' method is better then feel free change the script in the wiki.