the find that looks in /etc/backup.d didn't follow symlinks and would instead fail

silently causing me much confusion, so I added -L to find and an if statement to
spit something out so its obvious

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7e97015..2edbef9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ version 0.9.4 -- unreleased
 	   and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
 	   from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before). 
 	   Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
+	 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
+	   symlinks for /etc/backup.d
     handler changes
 	Added tar handler
 	mysql:
diff --git a/src/backupninja.in b/src/backupninja.in
index 57936da..16ac7a7 100755
--- a/src/backupninja.in
+++ b/src/backupninja.in
@@ -476,7 +476,11 @@ errormsg=""
 if [ "$singlerun" ]; then
 	files=$singlerun
 else
-	files=`find $configdirectory -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '.*.swp' | sort -n`
+	files=`find -L $configdirectory -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '.*.swp' | sort -n`
+
+	if [ -z "$files" ]; then
+		fatal "No backup actions configured in '$configdirectory', run ninjahelper!"
+	fi
 fi
 
 for file in $files; do