Operation not permitted

tapi · 03-18-2013, 05:58 AM

Hie iam receiving this error, iam using RHEL 5.3

Starting BackupPC: runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted

I can start the service as root user but i cannot start it as backuppc. i have changed the permission on the script from root to backuppc. But still i cannot start the service backuppc as backuppc user

eklavya · 03-18-2013, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tapi

Hie iam receiving this error, iam using RHEL 5.3

Starting BackupPC: runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted

I can start the service as root user but i cannot start it as backuppc. i have changed the permission on the script from root to backuppc. But still i cannot start the service backuppc as backuppc user

Do not put same questions in multiple forums.
You have put this here already
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ed-4175454506/

tapi · 03-18-2013, 06:04 AM

user backuppc has groups apache and backuppc

eklavya · 03-18-2013, 06:11 AM

Have you started the service using sudo?
If it is regular user, it should use sudo.

tapi · 03-18-2013, 06:13 AM

Iam using RHEL 5.3

---------- Post added 03-18-13 at 01:14 PM ----------

the service backuppc is not running

eklavya · 03-18-2013, 06:25 AM

Does it give this error too?
BackupPC startup failed

How do you start the service?

tapi · 03-18-2013, 06:28 AM

[backuppc@machine_name ~]$ /etc/init.d/backuppc start
Starting BackupPC: runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
[FAILED]

eklavya · 03-18-2013, 06:40 AM

and what does it give if you enter
$ sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start
or
$ sudo service backuppc start

tapi · 03-18-2013, 07:09 AM

Iam putting my root password by still giving the below error

[backuppc@wanderers ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start
Password:
Sorry, try again.

eklavya · 03-18-2013, 07:19 AM

Do not put root password, see what is it saying.
Put your user password there.

tapi · 03-18-2013, 07:21 AM

[backuppc@wanderers ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start
Password:
backuppc is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

eklavya · 03-18-2013, 07:24 AM

Open the file /etc/sudoers
Add following line in it

Code:

backuppc	ALL=(ALL) ALL

tapi · 03-18-2013, 07:30 AM

thank you very much it's working