On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Eric V. Smith wrote:
> It's actually: if the configured "client" matches the output of the
> "hostname" command, it's local, else it uses ssh.
Eric,
Oh. Okay.
> On my machines, "hostname" returns a name that includes the domain.tld, so
> to do a local backup I'd have to use
On 10/25/2019 6:05 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Ah. Now I understand: if dirvish is backing up a host drive to an external
> USB hard drive the client is just the host's name without a domain.tld. When
> the backup is external then the domain.tld is used and root needs ssh
> access.
It's actually: i
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, wes wrote:
> It doesn't matter now since it's working, but just for the sake of being
> overly specific, these are two separate things. I think SSH may still not
> work, but dirvish now works because it is no longer using SSH.
Wes,
Ah. Now I understand: if dirvish is backing
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 2:22 PM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> Apparently it now does because root is running the initializations and I
> added root to the AllowUsers and enabled PermitRootLogin. No more
> permission
> error after fixing the default.conf.
>
It doesn't matter now since it's working, but j
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I did ask for the output of the "hostname" command three times...
Paul,
Yes, and I didn't know that's a command so I used HOSTNAME and uname -n.
> The HOWTO.Debian that I wrote many years ago (2003!) when packaging
> dirvish for Debian does state:
>
>
On Fri 25 Oct 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > Right!
> > So you should NOT add the domain in the client: line, just:
> > client: salmo
>
> Paul,
>
> Well! Had this been in the howto it would have saved us all a lot of time,
> effort, and grief.
I did
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Right!
> So you should NOT add the domain in the client: line, just:
> client: salmo
Paul,
Well! Had this been in the howto it would have saved us all a lot of time,
effort, and grief.
The howto shows:
"First, the client specifies the host target. cl
