Re: Recycle semaphore?
  By: Va7aqd to Digital Man on Mon Apr 01 2019 11:23 am

 >   Re: Recycle semaphore?
 >   By: Digital Man to Va7aqd on Mon Apr 01 2019 01:15 am
 >
 >  > In order for sbbs to set that option flag (sbbscon.c, around line 2050),
 >  > you'd have to not have linux "capabilities" installed.  Do you have the
 >  > file /usr/include/sys/capability.h ?
 >
 > OK, getting closer - I believe when I installed I realised there wasn't
 > currently a Debian package "libcap2-dev" so continued on to see how things
 > would go.  I see it's now called "libcap-dev", so that's installed and I now
 > have /usr/include/sys/capability.h
 >
 > I did a CVS update and have rebuilt pretty much everything, but recycling is
 > still being disabled and I am still not quite sure why - this is what's
 > showing in the logs now, though:
 >
 > Apr  1 11:14:57 home synchronet: The process 12989 was given capabilities =
 > cap_net_bind_service+ep
 > Apr  1 11:14:57 home synchronet: linux_initialprivs() FAILED
 > Apr  1 11:14:57 home synchronet: Verify the following kernel module is
 > loaded [See insmod(8)]: capability

 > There doesn't seem to be a 'capability' kernel module for either the 3.16 or
 > 4.9 kernels on the system.
 >
 > So.. I suspect that either I need to do something further on the
 > re-compiling, or add something on to the system?

It sounds like you're missing some kernel module associated with capabilities.
Sorry, I don't know more than that (I didn't write this portion of the code,
Deuce did). I don't seem to have any modules with "cap" in the name
installed/running on my Debian systems, yet the capabilites work fine.

                                            digital man

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