Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 January 2021 00:23:45 David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-22 15:35, David Christensen wrote: > > On 2021-01-22 15:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greeting all; > >> > >> I have a problem, using amanda, locally > >> built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but > >>

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 January 2021 00:23:45 David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-22 15:35, David Christensen wrote: > > On 2021-01-22 15:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greeting all; > >> > >> I have a problem, using amanda, locally > >> built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but > >>

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 19:31, Pankaj Jangid wrote: David Christensen writes: On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment with

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 15:35, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-22 15:29, Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting all; I have a problem, using amanda, locally built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. How or what do I do to fix it? How about chmod(1) as root? # chmod u+s /usr/loc

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Pankaj Jangid
David Christensen writes: > On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: >> I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI >> Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them >> a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining >> technolog

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 January 2021 19:51:36 Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:38 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:36:29 Larry Martell wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:29 PM Gene Heskett > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > Greeting all; > > > > > > > > I have a problem

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 January 2021 19:19:12 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-01-22 at 19:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:35:27 David Christensen wrote: > >> chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > > > > root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > > roo

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 5:13 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2021 19:17:13 Larry Martell wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:09 PM Gene Heskett > wrote: > > > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:35:27 David Christensen wrote: > > > > chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > > > >

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 January 2021 19:17:13 Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:09 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:35:27 David Christensen wrote: > > > chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > > > > root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/am

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:38 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:36:29 Larry Martell wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:29 PM Gene Heskett > wrote: > > > Greeting all; > > > > > > I have a problem, using amanda, locally > > > built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs t

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 January 2021 18:36:29 Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:29 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greeting all; > > > > I have a problem, using amanda, locally > > built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but > > isn't. > > > > How or what do I do to fix it? >

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:29:25 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > I have a problem, using amanda, locally > built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. > > How or what do I do to fix it? To give you something to work from, here's what I see on a working amanda installation:

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-22 at 19:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:35:27 David Christensen wrote: > >> chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > > root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amcheck Da

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:09 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 22 January 2021 18:35:27 David Christensen wrote: > > > chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > > root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind > root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/a

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:33:13PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 23:22:19 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > > is in neither sid nor Bullseye which pr

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 January 2021 18:35:27 David Christensen wrote: > chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind root@coyote:amanda-3.5.1$ su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amcheck Daily" Amanda Tape Server Host Check -

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:49 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:39 PM Antoine Mazeas > wrote: > >> Dear Debian Users, >> >> For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom >> expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation. >> >> I am setting up a

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:39 PM Antoine Mazeas wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom > expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation. > > I am setting up a VM with an 8000 MB disk space (single disk) that I > want to partiti

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:29 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greeting all; > > I have a problem, using amanda, locally > built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. > > How or what do I do to fix it? chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind

Re: setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 15:29, Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting all; I have a problem, using amanda, locally built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. How or what do I do to fix it? How about chmod(1) as root? # chmod u+s /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind David

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 23:22:19 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > is in neither sid nor Bullseye which presumably means it has been > dropped. Anyone know why? > > bugs.d

setuid question

2021-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greeting all; I have a problem, using amanda, locally built. /usr/local/libexec/amanda/ambind needs to be setuid, but isn't. How or what do I do to fix it? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in t

Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it is in neither sid nor Bullseye which presumably means it has been dropped. Anyone know why? bugs.debian.org doesn't show any bugs against it and google is coming up short

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 15:10, David Christensen wrote: A key issue with storage is bit rot. I should have said "bit rot protection". David

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 14:26, mick crane wrote: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and this new/old one is just backup for them. Can I assume that Debian installer in some expert

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread Linux-Fan
mick crane writes: hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and this new/old one is just backup for them. Can I assume that Debian installer in some expert mode will sort ou

Gnome Terminal in Bullseye

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Has anyone else noticed in Gnome Terminal in bullseye that, by default, it starts in an 80x24 configuration, but if you press F11 to make it full screen and then press F11 again to take it back to non-full-screen, the configuration it goes back to isn't quite 80x24? It's approx 79x23 or

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining technologies. I want these cards to be put to us

Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-22 Thread Antoine Mazeas
Dear Debian Users, For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation. I am setting up a VM with an 8000 MB disk space (single disk) that I want to partition using LVM. However, every time the recipe runs, I end up g

Raid 1

2021-01-22 Thread mick crane
hello, I want to tidy things up as suggested. Have one old PC that I'll put 2 disks in and tidy everything up so what's scattered about is on the running disks and this new/old one is just backup for them. Can I assume that Debian installer in some expert mode will sort out the raid or do I nee

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > > > > Does mdadm have a > > > equivalent manner of displaying its configuration? > > Not having used it, I wondered whether mdadm could effortlessly > "brain-dump" in a similar manner to either of these methods. sudo mdadm --detail --scan will produce all the necessary in

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 08:06:37 (+0100), steve wrote: > Le 21-01-2021, à 20:41:05 -0600, David Wright a écrit : > > > I always archive the output of udevadm for my disks (actually > > I just copy the /run/udev/data/b8\:* files). > > I don't understand. I keep a log for each of my hard drives, its

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Steven Mainor writes: > Well I can say that I have a ryzen 7 2700X in my desktop and I am very happy > with it. I don't know what question specifically I can answer for you but I > have no complaints about it. > > I would look for a motherboard with components(sound, sensors, network > contro

Re: remove me from this list

2021-01-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:02:29 -0500 J B Martin wrote: > I do not use this product. > > Please remove my name. > > Thank you. You can remove yourself. Many mail lists add headers on how to manage the list to every email, as this list does. Get your mail reader to display headers (often CTL-h). T

Re: command to build a Debian package

2021-01-22 Thread George Shuklin
>From our production experience the cleanest way to build a package is gbp (which heavily relies on git structure with source code). You can create required git structure by importing src package (gbp supports this) and building from this git. It's pdbuilder underneath, which in turn uses dpkg-bui

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:39:45 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: ... > The AMD cards probably don't function without a firmware blob, > even with otherwise open-source drivers. Depends what you mean by "function" :) IIRC, my system with an RX-570 would boot to console without the firmware packages install

Re: command to build a Debian package

2021-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 22 ian 21, 14:00:42, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > On 1/22/21 1:53 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I'm surprised to see on > > > >https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation > > > > that the recommended command to build a Debian package is > > dpkg-buildpackage. I had problems with i

Re: command to build a Debian package

2021-01-22 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 1/22/21 1:53 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I'm surprised to see on https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation that the recommended command to build a Debian package is dpkg-buildpackage. I had problems with it in the past as it doesn't clean up the environment (and some packages are ve

Re: pwc.ko bullseye doesn't work

2021-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 22 ian 21, 11:43:02, Martin Bitter wrote: > Hello Team! > > Using reportbug I was asked which package the bug occurred. > So I types a 'dpkg -S /lib/modules/5.10.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/media/usb/ > pwc/pwc.ko' which gave me 'linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64'. But this package is > not listed b

remove me from this list

2021-01-22 Thread J B Martin
I do not use this product. Please remove my name. Thank you. Bryant Martin On 1/22/2021 7:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 22 ian 21, 08:08:57, steve wrote: Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: I have rebooted with udev_log=

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 22 ian 21, 08:08:57, steve wrote: > Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > > On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: > > > I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see > > > > > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Failed to update de

command to build a Debian package

2021-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I'm surprised to see on https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation that the recommended command to build a Debian package is dpkg-buildpackage. I had problems with it in the past as it doesn't clean up the environment (and some packages are very sensitive to some environment variables), and

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2021-01-22 08:08:57 +0100, steve wrote: > Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > > On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: > > > I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see > > > > > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Failed to update

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2021-01-19 22:09:49 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > While it might have had its toothing problems in the beginning > NetworkManager has been reliable for me since switching from Wicd (some > time around the wheezy release I believe). I use Debian/unstable, and I've also switched to NetworkMana

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:36:11AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI > Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them > a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining > technologies. > Ther

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I don???t want any proprietary software to run on these systems. And hence > exploring possibilities. My questions: > > 1. I had a look at i7 and Ryzen 7. For multi-threading applications, it >appears that Ryzen is better choice because it allows more number of >sim

pwc.ko bullseye doesn't work

2021-01-22 Thread Martin Bitter
Hello Team! Using reportbug I was asked which package the bug occurred. So I types a 'dpkg -S /lib/modules/5.10.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/media/usb/ pwc/pwc.ko' which gave me 'linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64'. But this package is not listed by https://packages.debian.org/search? suite=bullseye&arch=am

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread deloptes
Pankaj Jangid wrote: > 3. I’ll also put these machine to serve local copy of all my data. I’ll > synchronize it with some cloud space. I need recommendations for > reliable hard disks. A combination of SSD/HDD to balance between > cost, performance and reliability will probably be best. But I real