Does a CentOS or Fedora repo exists?

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Hello community,
Does anyone maintain an RPM or a repository to install urBackup on Centos 6.x systems?

EDIT: When installing from source on centos 6.4 the make install script outputs an error when creating the user urbackup.
The correct syntax is:

root@box urbackup-server-1.2.3.261]# adduser urbackup --system -U -d "/usr/local/var/urbackup"

Thanks,
Palmeiro

2

As far as I know nobody is working on a RPM package.
There is a free build service which one could use to do that: https://build.opensuse.org/ (Can target CentOS and RHEL, as far as I can see).

Hmm, if I change that it won’t work on debian anymore.

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Hi uroni,

I’ve changed the Makefile.am to create the user in this test system I’m building.
I’m now creating an InitScript to use the builtin commands to manage the service.

I’ll Check if I can make an Makefile.am for both Centos and Debian without breaking either of them… :)

Looking at:

Will report back…

Cheers,
Palmeiro

4

I have a working InitScript. (Shamelessly stolen from ntpd :))

What I’ve wHacked so far…
[list]

  1. Install EPEL repo (required for cryptopp > 7.20 and libcurl-devel)

  2. Download and extract sources

  3. Makefile.am -> line 26 - changed to
    adduser urbackup --system -U -d “$(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/urbackup” || true

    3.1 ./configure && make && make install

  4. Create/download the InitScript provided into /etc/init.d
    [/list:u:2g9g3e4w]

Create the file /etc/init.d/urbackup_srv with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: - 93 29
# description: Starts and stops urBackup server. \
#              used to provide backup services to clients over the local network or the internet.  

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: urbackup
# Required-Start: $syslog $network $named $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $syslog $network $named $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
# Short-Description: start|stop|restart|try-restart|status|force-reload urbackup_srv
# Description: control urBackup server
### END INIT INFO  

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions  

# some varialbes to make the script easier to change
prog=$"urbackup_srv"
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog
exec=/usr/local/sbin/start_urbackup_server  

start() {
        [ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4
        [ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 1
        [ -x /usr/local/sbin/start_urbackup_server ] || exit 5  

        # Start daemons.
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        daemon $exec $OPTIONS
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
        return $RETVAL
}  

stop() {
        [ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4
        echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
        killproc $prog
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
        return $RETVAL
}  


# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        stop
        sleep 3
        start
        ;;
  try-restart|condrestart)
        if [ -e ${lockfile} ]; then
            stop
            sleep 3
            start
        fi
        ;;
  status)
        status $prog
        RETVAL=$?
        ;;
  reload)
        exit 3
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|try-restart|status|force-reload}"
        exit 2
esac

execute

chmod +x /etc/init.d/urbackup_srv
chkconfig --add urbackup_srv
chkconfig --level 345 urbackup_srv  

service urbackup_srv start

This should get urBackup started and stopped in the standard CentOS way.

Will work on an RPM now. Can’t promise anything right now…

Cheers,
Palmeiro

5

ppalmeiro please can you help

i am trying to install the urbackup server source on a centos 6 server

i have followd your how to but when i do: " ./configure && make && make install " i get the following output

checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for g++… no
checking for c++… no
checking for gpp… no
checking for aCC… no
checking for CC… no
checking for cxx… no
checking for cc++… no
checking for cl.exe… no
checking for FCC… no
checking for KCC… no
checking for RCC… no
checking for xlC_r… no
checking for xlC… no
checking whether the C++ compiler works… no
configure: error: in /tmp/urbackup-server-1.2.3.261': configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables See config.log’ for more details

any ideas why i cannot get the urbackup-server installed

any help greatly appreciated

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I’m running centos6.4 and can’t seem to ./configure because the libcurl version is 7.19 and the configure looks for >7.2
How have you gotten past this hurdle. I’ve got epel, remi, remi-test repos enabled.

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Note that you can build it without libcurl if you run configure with the “–without-mail” configure option.