On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:21:28PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > I have difficulties installing a package on a Debian Sarge machine. The > problem is rather strange, installation fails when I run apt-get > remotely over ssh and works fine when I work on the console. If I understand correctly, you are running it over ssh *both* times. When you log in manually it works and when you login with a script it doesn't work, right? > If I login to a remove host using ssh and run command > > apt-get install fam > > everything works perfectly. Did you start ssh as root or as normal user? On the remote maching, are you logged in as root or as normal user? > Problem can be recreate by following steps: > > 1) Make a bash script install_fam.sh > #!/bin/bash > ssh $1 "apt-get install fam" Did you start this script as root or as normal user? On the remote maching, are you logged in as root or as normal user? > There is obviously a bug somewhere but it is not obvious to me where to > report it, is this is this a problem with fam or openssh? > > What do I need to do to report this bug. If it's a bug, use the `reportbug' program (package reportbug). It guides you through all the steps you should take. Maybe this is already resolved or other people concluded that there isn't a bug. Visit bugs.debian.org to look for it or use the handy `querybts' program - Query Bug Tracking System. That is also part of package reportbug and is also started as part of a reporting session by reportbug. Then try: querybts openssh and querybts fam HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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