Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 Thread Jim McNamara
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jim McNamara wrote: > > > > Thanks again for everyone's help, I'm a longtime lurker on these boards, > > and I was quite pleased to have support when my usualy install > > conditions were thrown out! > > I'm still curious about the real caus

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > > Thanks again for everyone's help, I'm a longtime lurker on these boards, > and I was quite pleased to have support when my usualy install > conditions were thrown out! I'm still curious about the real cause of your problem, though. I revived an old vmware image of Cent

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Adam Goryachev < mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm guessing your telephony system will be some commercial version of > asterisk? I would seriously question the idea of putting both your > telephony

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2008-12-16 19:39:54 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC]: > Which brings up the question - why would anyone install a 4.x now if you > don't already have something old that you need to keep working on it? he does - an

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > > Solved! Thanks for everyone's help. I found that I did fine by manually > downloading a httpd rpm, but knowing that -x doubles for --exclude is nice. > That didn't make my yum man page. > > I now have graphics, password protection and all is well. > > I still will stick t

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> To Adam Goryachev, I don't have any interest in CentOS (and > judging by >> other posts in this thread, competence with it either). The > company I >> work for got roped in using it for an individual project, as > another >> vendor brought in to do

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Maciolek wrote: > > > Jim McNamara wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) > > mailto:n...@lemonbit.com>> wrote: > > > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > > Why is suexec involved? > > > > Les is right, you don't n

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Maciolek
Jim McNamara wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) > mailto:n...@lemonbit.com>> wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Why is suexec involved? > > Les is right, you don't need suexec. Trying to use it is probably > causing your problem. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) < n...@lemonbit.com> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Why is suexec involved? > > Les is right, you don't need suexec. Trying to use it is probably > causing your problem. > > >> [2008-12-15 10:37:00]: file is either setuid or setgid: >

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: > Why is suexec involved? Les is right, you don't need suexec. Trying to use it is probably causing your problem. >> [2008-12-15 10:37:00]: file is either setuid or setgid: >> (/var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin) > > Yes, the config.pl script should have installed it mode 0455

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Adam Goryachev wrote: > Not sure I can help you with that one... I have never used CentOS > and in > fact avoid it. I've been quite happy with Debian ever since RedHat 8 > was > released :) Hopefully someone else with more experience could assist > you. > Not that I think it can't work on ce

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > > > Changing the permissions as you suggested helped, but now I'm plagued > with a new set of errors that make little to no sense to me. When I go > to http://my.lan.ip/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin I get a half-formed page, and > this as the contents of the /var/log/httpd/error

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > > I didn't think it was incompatible with CentOS, I'm just stuck in the > position of having done this probably 20 times on Debian without issue > (past the first) and now with my first try on CentOS, I'm floundering > badly. There should not be any issues with Centos.

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim McNamara wrote: > Changing the permissions as you suggested helped, but now I'm plagued > with a new set of errors that make little to no sense to me. When I go > to http://my.lan.ip/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin I get a half-formed page, and > this as t

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-16 Thread Jim McNamara
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Adam Goryachev < mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jim McNamara wrote: > > I didn't think it was incompatible with CentOS, I'm just stuck in > > the position of having done this probably 20 times on De

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-15 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim McNamara wrote: > I didn't think it was incompatible with CentOS, I'm just stuck in > the position of having done this probably 20 times on Debian without > issue (past the first) and now with my first try on CentOS, I'm > floundering badly. I chan

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-15 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> [r...@telephony conf.d]# cat /etc/selinux/config > >> # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. > >> # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: > >> # enforcing - SELinux securit

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Les Mikesell wrote: >> [r...@telephony conf.d]# cat /etc/selinux/config >> # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. >> # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: >> # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. >> # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
> > > Is that a cut/paste error or do you actually have targeted uncommented? > By the way, it takes a reboot to make a change take effect. > > -- >Les Mikesell >lesmikes...@gmail.com > > That wasn't a cut/paste error, targeted came up uncommented from the get go. I went through the instal

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Jim McNamara wrote: >>> Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use >>> CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get >>> BackupPC running on that box, and I cann

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jim McNamara wrote: > > Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use > > CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get > > BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_A

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim McNamara wrote: > Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use > CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get > BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_Admin (or > the testsuid script found here - > http://backuppc.so

[BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-12 Thread Jim McNamara
Hello all! I'm normally a Debian guy, but for a project I'm forced to use CentOS 4.7. I installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from source. I'm trying to get BackupPC running on that box, and I cannot seem to get BackupPC_Admin (or the testsuid script found here - http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/debugCGI.htm