Bacula start up issue

[Graham Smith <graham@crazysquirrel.com>]

Hi,

I installed Bacula yesterday which was a painful experience because I 
mistakenly answered no when it asked me if I wanted to install the 
database. Anyway, I installed the database by hand, configured Bacula 
and went to fire it up.

Running "/etc/init.d/bacula-director start" gives me a pid file in 
/var/run/bacula for the director but a ps + grep for the process id 
turns up nothing. There are no error messages on start up and there is 
nothing in the syslog nor the /var/log/bacula directory. The process 
just seems to silently exit.

To confuse me further if I run "bacula-dir -c 
/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf" as root form a command prompt the director 
starts fine. If I add the "-u bacula -g bacula" arguments, as the init 
script does, then the director fails to start.

Any ideas what's going on?

Many thanks, Graham