Package: backuppc
Version: 2.1.0-9
Severity: normal

Hi,

a local backup of /etc failed with 
Backup failed on localhost (Tar exited with error 256 () status)

I traced it to the execve call

execve("/bin/env", ["env", "LC_ALL=C", "/bin/tar", "-c", "-v", "-f", "-", "-C", 
"/etc", "--totals", "--newer=2005-02-24\\ 22:00:01", "--exclude=./tmp", 
"--exclude=./proc", "--exclude=./sys", "."], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT

which fails because env is installed as /usr/bin/env, not as /bin/env.
After adding a symbolic link as a workaround the backup succeeded.


Cheers

JÃrgen


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-rc5-0
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages backuppc depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.59       Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache                        1.3.33-4   versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [apache2] 2.0.53-5   traditional model for Apache2
ii  debconf                       1.4.30.11  Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.27    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libarchive-zip-perl           1.14-1     Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         1.34-1     Perl module for creation and manip
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]     5.8.4-6    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-suid                     5.8.4-6    Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii  samba-common                  3.0.10-1   Samba common files used by both th
ii  smbclient                     3.0.10-1   a LanManager-like simple client fo
ii  tar                           1.13.93-4  GNU tar
ii  wwwconfig-common              0.0.42     Debian web auto configuration

-- debconf information:
* backuppc/configuration-note:
* backuppc/add-lines: true

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