backuppc "Error: Unable to read config.pl or language strings!!"

neilneil2000 · 06-09-2008, 03:44 PM

I have been trying to get backuppc working for a few days now and it just won't seem to work!

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and installed it using apt-get and went through all the install process fine.

When I try and get to the web admin page I get this error which is really getting to me now.

I have run the following command and still no luck!

Code:

sudo chmod 777 -R /etc/backuppc/

Please help!

ThorstenW · 06-14-2008, 05:05 PM

Hi neilneil2000,

did you try something like:
perl /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi > /tmp/test.html
as the apache user?

In my case this returned some perl error like "Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH}... config.pl line 46". This error most likely means that one folder in the path set in the config.pl is world writable. In my case the problem was solved by setting the permissions of the /bin directory wright (for some reasosn the bin directory on my nas was world-writable).

Hope I could help,

Thorsten

neilneil2000 · 06-16-2008, 04:58 PM

Thanks for your response. I have tried running

Code:

perl /etc/backuppc/config.pl > /tmp/test.html

but I don't get any output. My guess is because the page requires authentication.

Any ideas?

trickykid · 06-16-2008, 05:01 PM

Is the path to the cgi script configured in apache to be executable? If so, did you restart apache after making such changes?

neilneil2000 · 06-16-2008, 05:07 PM

I have solved the problem!!!

I looked in

Code:

/var/log/apache2/error.log

and saw the aforementioned

Code:

Couldn't execute /etc/backuppc/config.pl: Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /etc/backuppc/config.pl line 46.

I then ran

Code:

echo $PATH

and found that /usr/bin was world writable so I ran

Code:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin

And it now works!

YEY