On Thursday 17 December 2020 23:03:59 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:38:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 17 December 2020 09:24:58 Richard Sass wrote: > > > Gene: > > > > > > BUT Whats line 2 above, I've wasted a year looking for that, it > > > does not grep in the whole src code tree. > > > > > > configuration error - unknown item 'ALWAYS_SET_PATH' (notify > > > administrator) > > Presumably this comes from the "su" command itself rather than from > any binary you've built from source. > > (You can check this by running something simple via su, e.g. > $ su amanda -c "echo test message" > ) Which generates the error. > > > > Perhaps this will help > > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905564 > > > > Its of no help on this stretch install. > > gene@coyote:~$ sudo -i > > [sudo] password for gene: > > root@coyote:~$ su amanda -c "geany bak-indices-configs" > > configuration error - unknown item 'ALWAYS_SET_PATH' (notify > > administrator) > > > > So where should it be put, and whose perms on stretch? > > If you are trying to eliminate that error message, it seems like you > want to delete/deactivate the corresponding line (rather that put > something new anywhere). > > What do > $ grep ALWAYS_SET_PATH /etc/login.defs /etc/default/* > $ ls -l /etc/login.defs /detc/defaults/su > show? > > Nathan > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic > region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - > http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: > http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key > fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
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