I have been using this great tool on an Ubuntu 18.04 server system as a home backup solution.
As of version 11.7, I can not run FreeFileSync as root user anymore.
On a terminal the following error messages are shown:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): ffs_paths.cpp[114] Cannot get process information.
Failed to determine non-root user name
Error starting "/usr/local/bin/freefilesync.bin/Bin/FreeFileSync_x86_64".
Killed by signal 6
The GlobalSettings.xml for the user root is in /root/.config/FreeFileSyncUse login user config path when running as root (macOS, Linux)
My use case is, that a root crontab script is running a sync to collect data files from multiple windows system SMB shares as a backup. After the sync the script needs to change the access rights of the files on the linux server so the user on the windows systems have read rights to the backuped files on the SMB share on the server. For this the root access is needed.
Any help is appreciated...
