The latest upgrade on Ubuntu 12.04 updates vsftpd to version 2.3.5 and they have made a change that requires the chroot directory to no longer be writable which produces this error when trying to connect. They have made an option called allow_writeable_chroot=YES in the latest build that had to be backported to use this functionality.
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BackupExec 2012 Linux Agent SP1 Patch Update – Ubuntu Fix
Edit the patch file
#nano installraluspatch.sh
Insert these lines of code where it says “### INSERT THIS CODE HERE ###”
elif [ `cat /etc/issue | grep Ubuntu | wc -l` = 1 ]
then
if [ `which dpkg-query | wc -l` = 1 ]
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Install BackupExec 2012 Agent on Debian 3.0 Kernel
Props to this site for pointing me in the right direction.
Install the BackupExec Agent as you would normally (./installralus) and the installation will complete successfully however the service will fail to start afterwards.
Change into ralus directory
#cd /opt/VRTSralus/bin
Make a backup of libbesocket.so
#cp libbesocket.so libbesocket.so.orig
Install objdump
apt-get install binutils binutils-multiarch
Disassemble the binary to a file
#objdump -D libbesocket.so > libbesocket.asm
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Manually Restore a Clonezilla Image When Destination Partition is Smaller than the Original
Today I ran into some problems with a hard drive that failed in a machine and I needed to restore a Clonezilla image. Unfortunately, the destination partition happened to be smaller than the original image so I couldn’t use the wizard because it errored out claiming I needed to use the -C option. The only problem is that from within the wizard you don’t even have the option to use it. After some searching, I found a few sites that said to use partclone.restore -C -s – -o /dev/(path to partition) and that failed everytime but at least pointed me in the right direction. To make a long story short, here’s a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ that should accomplish our end goal. From the shell, do one of the following:
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