[Dxspider-support] Help request - unable to save user settings
Michael Carper, Ph.D.
mike at wa9pie.net
Sat Sep 14 23:28:20 CEST 2019
For a year now, I've been trying to sort this out. It's a complete mystery.
Anyone have any new ideas?
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Mike, WA9PIE
WA9PIE-2; dxc.wa9pie.net; port 8000
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:28 AM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
wrote:
> I think these are good:
>
> [sysop at instance-5 ~]$ findmnt
> TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
> / /dev/sda1 ext4
> rw,relatime,seclabel,barrier=1,data=ordered
> ├─/proc proc proc rw,relatime
> │ ├─/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime
> │ └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime
> ├─/sys sysfs sysfs rw,relatime,seclabel
> ├─/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime
> └─/dev devtmpfs devtmpfs
> rw,relatime,seclabel,size=1819664k,nr_inodes=454916,mode=7
> └─/dev devtmpfs devtmpfs
> rw,relatime,seclabel,size=1819664k,nr_inodes=454916,mode=7
> ├─/dev/pts devpts devpts
> rw,relatime,seclabel,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
> └─/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs
> rw,relatime,seclabel,size=1832216k,nr_inodes=458054
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 5:05 AM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Also do a 'findmnt' and check that the volume that holds the / partition
>> (or /home if you have separate volumes for these) is 'rw' and not 'ro'.
>>
>> djk at dirk6:~/Desktop$ findmnt
>> TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
>> / /dev/sdc1 ext4 rw
>> ,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
>> ├─/sys sysfs sysfs
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
>> │ ├─/sys/kernel/security securityfs securityfs
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
>> │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs
>> ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/rdma cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/pids cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio
>> │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event
>> │ │ └─/sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb cgroup cgroup
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb
>> │ ├─/sys/fs/pstore pstore pstore
>> rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
>> │ ├─/sys/kernel/debug debugfs debugfs rw,relatime
>> │ ├─/sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fusectl rw,relatime
>> │ └─/sys/kernel/config configfs configfs rw,relatime
>> ...
>> ...
>> ├─/home /dev/md0 ext4 rw
>> ,noatime,stripe=256,data=ordered
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Dirk
>> On 29/01/2019 08:03, dd5xx--- via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> please check also the permissions on file system level at the top
>> directory with "ls -ldh ../data". The directory needs an execution
>> permission bit. You might wonder: why won’t the write permission work
>> without an execute permission on the directory? This is because of the fact
>> that you can only retrieve the permissions of a directory when its execute
>> bit is set. If it is not set, the OS won’t know whether it actually has the
>> write permission.
>>
>> About the filter settings, they are saved in /spider/filter/spots for
>> each user as a file "username.pl" so in my case in that directory I see
>> files like DD5XX.pl, KE4KY-1.pl, and so on ... you could also check those
>> files and the directory permission /spider/filter
>>
>> The permissions on my file system looks like that:
>>
>> ls -ldh /spider/filter/spots
>> drwx------ 2 foo users 4.0K Jan 9 14:47 /spider/spots/
>>
>> ls -ldh /spider/data
>> drwx------ 7 foo users 4.0K Jan 23 01:01 /spider/data/
>>
>> But maybe it's something quite different and some other users will reply
>> to your question, too. Hope you get this issue fixed soon. Good luck and
>> all the best.
>>
>> 73
>> Saki, DD5XX
>>
>>
>> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 29. Januar 2019 um 08:43 Uhr
>> *Von:* "Michael Carper, Ph.D. via Dxspider-support"
>> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
>> *An:* "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
>> <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
>> *Cc:* "Michael Carper, Ph.D." <mike at wa9pie.net> <mike at wa9pie.net>
>> *Betreff:* [Dxspider-support] Help request - unable to save user settings
>> Since sometime last fall, users making connection to my cluster
>> (WA9PIE-2) have been unable to save settings. So every time the user
>> connects, they are greeted with:
>>
>> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>Please enter your QTH,
>> set/qth <your qth>Please enter your location with set/location or set/qraPlease
>> enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>WA9PIE de
>> WA9PIE-2 29-Jan-2019 0739Z dxspider >
>>
>> In addition, users can't save filters (which, for the 800 - 1000 users
>> that connect here, this is a significant problem).
>>
>> I've tried some things and haven't been successful. The permissions are
>> correct.
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> Has anyone seen this happen before? Does anyone know of a way to fix it?
>>
>> At this point, the users.v3 file is complete rubbish and unimportant
>> (since it's not retaining anything anyway).
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>>
>> Mike, WA9PIE
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