Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:30:12 +0100, Sylvain wrote:

> 2012/3/7 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
>> Anyway, I would have expected some kind of warning at the logs coming
>> from backuppc indicating a problem for accessing to the configured
>> mount point which was not available at that time and thus failing.
> 
> Me too, and I didn't understand why I wasn't getting anything in the
> logs until now: the default LogDir (/var/lib/backuppc/log/) is in a
> subdirectory of the TopDir (/var/lib/backuppc/), which means that if the
> TopDir doesn't exist, backuppc won't be able to log the error in LogDir.
> So in order to check the logs to find out what the problem is you first
> have to solve the problem. :-)

There is "/var/log/syslog" for that kind of purpose. Why is not used, I 
can't tell :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón