20 Dec
2020
20 Dec
'20
6:59 p.m.
On Sunday 20 December 2020 09:02:15 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 20 December 2020 10:50:44 Michael via
tde-users wrote:
sudo NOT su... Read the first link, they go together... AFIK, you'll
need to reformat the whole command for sudo (as it is not the same
format as su).
Don't run as root either! Run it as plain amanda, even if you have to
stick it in a test script and add it to amanda cron to kick it off.
No, since they've built a paranoid security wall between me and anybody
else, I'll run it as me.
Amiga, a blast from the past! That was my very first computer thingie, back
in, um, 1984? But for me it was just a glorified typewriter, as I never saw
the need to get geeky until I got on the Internet and had a few bad
experiences, enough to wise up a little.
Bill
On Saturday 19 December 2020 07:39:34 pm Gene
Heskett via tde-users
wrote:
> On Saturday 19 December 2020 19:15:47
Michael via tde-users wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 December 2020 11:15:43 am Michael via tde-users
wrote:
> >
On Saturday 19 December 2020 08:34:37 am Gene Heskett via
> > tde-users
wrote:
> >
On Saturday 19 December 2020 03:32:07 Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> Thanks for posting the dcop commands, I’ve been meaning to add
> similar to my local nightly backup for awhile.
>
> On the permissions issue:
>
> Use sudo, basically the same as using sudo for yourusername to
> root, but replace root with yourusername and yourusername with
> amanada. And then get sudo to run without password.
>
> -
> https://www.golinuxhub.com/2013/12/how-to-give-permission-to-use
>r-to -run/ - https://linuxhandbook.com/sudo-without-password/
This second URL showed me how to edit the sudoers file and add this:
amanda ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/opt/trinity/bin/dcop
But it still fails:
root@coyote:~$ su amanda -c "/opt/trinity/bin/dcop --user gene
--all-sessions kmail KMailIface resumeBackgroundJobs" Do use visudo to edit sudoers, it will use
whatever editor* you have
exported, e.g.:
export EDITOR=nano
* I know I’m a heathen heretic, I hate vi…
22 years ago I thought vi was the cats meow, then I found gedit, but
gedit screwed me one too many times with its habit of 52 pickup file
scrambling, so now I use nano or geany, neither has ever eaten my lunch,
gedit has been banned, rm'd when I find pieces of it still sneaking
around. vi I haven't used recently enough to even remember how to get in
and out of the edit mode, or to save and quit. And typing help doesn't
include those very vital commands. Or even how to close the help screen.
We used to have a saying in the amiga world, never ever allow the coder
to write the docs, he is so familiar with how it works he thinks
everyone is as familiar with it as he is, so the docs start with the
rust spots on the gears, not with what the gears actually do. So we had
another saying about when the code was finished, because somebody shot
the coder.
The best language we ever had on the amiga was Arexx, but Bill Hawes, who
wrote it, never got a dime from amiga, yet there was nothing the amiga
could do that you couldn't do from an Arexx script.
The amigados, any version, never had a cron, but we needed to keep it
busy in the middle of the night doing video production work, so Jim
Hines and I wrote ezcron, in Arexx because it had a sleep command and
didn't have to busywait. Not only that, we could calculate how long it
had to sleep to wake up in the exact first tick of the next minute
regardless of what time it was. We even used that to pop up a station
ID in the first second of the hour. We even had a web page served up
with an amiga, months before the major networks discovered it. Wasn't
much, but you could dial it up and read the same teleprompter scripts
our news anchors had read on the air 10 minutes before.
Being a medium market tv broadcaster was fun in those days 25 to 35 years
ago.
> Best,
> Michael