Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 16 September 2022 13:25:06 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: I did find this paragraph in systemd.exec(5): me, too. if i run into a problem, the first thing i do is to read. and, yes: i do read even man pages! ;) Maybe you can find a workaround there, and/or contribute your workaround

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 16 September 2022 14:10:01 CEST, Frank wrote: Apparently this has already been 'fixed' for bookworm. [...] so, this issue is known and 'they' did something about it. Maybe file a bug report to have this added for bullseye? since this issue is known, 'they' should be aware of it,

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Sep 2022 at 09:17:10 (+0200), Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:01:45 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > of course the first thing i did was to check if all the files from the > package were as they should be, and everything was fine! > > > It's supposed to be created as ne

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-16 Thread Frank
Op 16-09-2022 om 09:17 schreef Michael: with ssh@.service it is completely different. for each connection there is a dedicated sshd process being started, and each one of them has the same /run/sshd directory assigned. and that's the problem if you have more than one connection to a given host. a

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 09:17:10AM +0200, Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:01:45 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > unicorn:/lib/systemd/system$ grep RuntimeDirectory ssh@.service > > RuntimeDirectory=sshd > > RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755 > with ssh@.service it is completely different.

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I've been hit by this too. Likewise I haven't deliberately configured sshd for socket activation nor tampered with unit files. In my case the host was a newly imaged raspberry pi using the images linked from the Debian Wiki. I haven't done any further investigation. -- Jonathan Dowland https://j

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:01:45 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: of course the first thing i did was to check if all the files from the package were as they should be, and everything was fine! It's supposed to be created as needed. There should be two lines in the unit file: unicorn:/lib

Re: sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 12:02:21PM +0200, Michael wrote: > i recently had problems to reach some of my host with ssh. as it turned out, > it was b/c sshd refused the connection due to a missing /run/sshd directory. > > the logfile entry: > Aug 28 00:10:08 mail sshd[151893]: fatal: Missing privileg

sshd package systemd misconfiguration?

2022-09-15 Thread Michael
o i copied /usr/lib/systemd/system/ssh@.service to /etc/systemd/system/ and changed 'RuntimeDirectory=sshd' to 'RuntimeDirectory=sshd.%i', and it works. is it safe to say, that this issue is a misconfiguration? should the package maintainer be notified? or did i miss something? greetings...

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-02-04 Thread Andreas Gläser
Lisi gmail.com> writes: > > On Tuesday 31 January 2012 07:50:48 Andreas Glaeser wrote: > > I really prefer using Gmane to getting all those raw E-mail messages. There > > is far too much traffic on that list of yours. > > A valid decision. But at that rate it is not much use complaining to the

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-02-01 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 22:20:27 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 01 feb 12, 06:55:44, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 01/02/12 04:58, Lisi wrote: > > > On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: > > >> News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to > > >> 3.2., as t

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andreas Gläser
Leaving aside usability-questions for now and trying to continue making friends with Gmane: > Kind of redundant now that you've used aptitude to upgrade - if you > hadn't I'd have then asked for the output of "apt-get -s upgrade". > In this case it looks I'd ask for the output of:- > # apt-get -s

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 feb 12, 06:55:44, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 01/02/12 04:58, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: > >> News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to 3.2., as > >> this is going the new Ubuntu-longterm-supported kernel. > >> So I sup

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/12 04:58, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: >> News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to 3.2., as >> this is going the new Ubuntu-longterm-supported kernel. >> So I suppose, Squeeze is oing to come with a 3.2.x kernel, too. > >

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/12 01:30, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 31 ian 12, 20:54:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> root@osrdii:/home/andreas# cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: >>> release a=squeeze-backports Pin-Priority: 200 >>> >>> Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Debian >>> Pin-Pri

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: > News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to 3.2., as > this is going the new Ubuntu-longterm-supported kernel. > So I suppose, Squeeze is oing to come with a 3.2.x kernel, too. ??? Sorry, I can't follow this at all.

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 ian 12, 20:54:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > root@osrdii:/home/andreas# cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: > > release a=squeeze-backports Pin-Priority: 200 > > > > Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Debian > > Pin-Priority: 700 > > > > Package: * Pin: releas

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 07:50:48 Andreas Glaeser wrote: > I really prefer using Gmane to getting all those raw E-mail messages. There > is far too much traffic on that list of yours. A valid decision. But at that rate it is not much use complaining to the list if you don't like what Gmane doe

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/12 18:50, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > root@osrdii:/home/andreas# aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... > The following NEW packages will be installed: libavcodec53{a} > libavformat53{a} libavutil-extra-51{a} libpostproc-extra-52{a} > libswscale-extra-2{a} libx264-116{a} The following p

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andreas Glaeser
root@osrdii:/home/andreas# aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... The following NEW packages will be installed: libavcodec53{a} libavformat53{a} libavutil-extra-51{a} libpostproc-extra-52{a} libswscale-extra-2{a} libx264-116{a} The following packages will be REMOVED: libarts

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andreas Gläser
> > Backports has 3.2, which according to > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00012.html is > going to be the next stable kernel ;) > > First I would suggest you install 3.2 from backports, reboot to use it > and then remove any trace of testing/wheezy from your system

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/12 02:34, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > First I had some problems with gmane finding the my thread, the I tried to > reply through > gmane, but now I found that my answer was not there, although the system told > me, that > sending seems to have been done correctly. > When I think of it now t

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-30 Thread Andreas Glaeser
First I had some problems with gmane finding the my thread, the I tried to reply through gmane, but now I found that my answer was not there, although the system told me, that sending seems to have been done correctly. When I think of it now this must be the most insecure thing ever, as only my

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Please reply instead of writing new messages, it makes it easier to follow] On Lu, 30 ian 12, 07:14:19, Andreas Glaeser wrote: [...] You don't have lenny-backports in your sources.list and the corresponding pin is not needed anymore (not even for squeeze-backports), please remove it. > The

Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-29 Thread Andreas Glaeser
> Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'. > andreas@osrdii:~$ apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 100 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian Backports,a=squeeze-backports,n=squeeze-

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 29 ian 12, 18:24:56, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > andreas@osrdii:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libtirpc1{a} rpcbind{ab} > The following packages will be upgraded: > nfs-common xserver-xephyr{b} xserver-xorg-core{b} > 3 packages upgraded, 2

Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-29 Thread Andreas Glaeser
andreas@osrdii:~$ sudo aptitude update . . . Fetched 4,906 kB in 14s (339 kB/s) Current status: 4 updates [+1], 9821 new [+12]. andreas@osrdii:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... The following packages will be upgraded: libicu44 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly instal

Fwd: some misconfiguration in making a reverse proxy not clear what went wrong

2010-04-22 Thread Tapas Mishra
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tapas Mishra Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM Subject: some misconfiguration in making a reverse proxy not clear what went wrong To: debian-us...@lists.debian.org I want to host sites. http://www.myserver.com http://site1.myserver.com I have a

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a4e39d8.1c05d00a.378f.e...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote: >Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Boyd: >> Can your kernel flash your BIOS? In theory it could hide there and in >> whatever NVRAM your system has. > >I use common kernels from common repos. Can they? I believe they

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-07-03 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Boyd: > Can your kernel flash your BIOS? In theory it could hide there and in > whatever NVRAM your system has. I use common kernels from common repos. Can they? > When you "reformat" do you simply repartition and recreate filesystems, > leaving y

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a43cd93.1c07d00a.02ca.3...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote: >Thank You for Your time and answer, Todd: >> You can probably screw up any service if you try hard enough. Postfix is >> relatively secure, at least when compared to sendmail. As root, though, >> you're responsible for the security o

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-06-25 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Todd: > You can probably screw up any service if you try hard enough. Postfix is > relatively secure, at least when compared to sendmail. As root, though, > you're responsible for the security of your configurations if you > deviate from the defaults. Well. I d

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-06-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:33:17AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Is there a possible misconfiguration on postfix that can lead to an OS > breakage up to root privileges? You can probably screw up any service if you try hard enough. Postfix is relatively secure, at least when compared to sendma

Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-06-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Is there a possible misconfiguration on postfix that can lead to an OS breakage up to root privileges? Thank You for Your time. Less likely, I'd say...what exactly is your problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?

2009-06-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Is there a possible misconfiguration on postfix that can lead to an OS breakage up to root privileges? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Exim misconfiguration ?

2002-10-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending >> > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. >> > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many >> > mai

Re: Exim misconfiguration ?

2002-10-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many > mails, and exim is launched thousand times. > So that more t

Exim misconfiguration ?

2002-10-15 Thread Fred
Hi, I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many mails, and exim is launched thousand times. So that more than 1500 process ( 2/3 exim and 1/3 procmail) a

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > but > unlike GNU/Linux support, Fujitsu Support doesn't function on Sundays. > It's wait and see... Amazing, isn't it? So much for superior commercial support. (Yeah yeah, I know it's not fair to compare hardware support to OS

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> it is a good idea to visit the manufacturers' site. download an utility > and test the drive for errors. seagate and western digital have pretty > good utilities that run off a floppy after you boot using a dos bootdisk. Thanks for all the replies, I've downloaded a drive testing program from Fu

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Mueller
er Merwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration? > I am getting the same kind of errors shown below from your email (see mail > with subject "deselect and hda: irq timeout" 10-9 ... 10-10). &g

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:09:11PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > This isn't exactly Debian specific, but maybe someone here knows what > the problem is ... ? > > I have an old P120 laptop with a 1Gig drive. This drive is acting up > quite a lot lately. At the bottom of the email i

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Mueller
ED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I.e. if lilo has no problems with it I can have lba32 in there anyway?) I also have "compact" in my lilo.conf, so that it boots a little faster. Is this hardware failure, or misconfiguration? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Erro

Re: misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to > >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, > >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to ru

Re: misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run >dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect becaus

misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect because the package already has been con