Re: [dm-crypt] luksHeaderBackup

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

Hi Ali,

no problem, the same happened to me. I had an old version
from Debian in /usr/sbin and a manually installed new
wersion in /usr/local/sbin.

Arno

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:27:50PM +0200, Ali Reza Sajedi wrote:
> Dear Arno,
>
> Thank you very much for your hint.
>
> Yes, you are right. I have 2 versions running.
>
> I installed 1.1.0 on 1.0.6 without removing the older version.
>
> I thought the new version would only update the older version. However,  
> apparently, this is not the case.
>
> I will try to remove the older version and see if it works. Thank you.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ali
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arno Wagner" <arno@wagner.name>
> To: <dm-crypt@saout.de>
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] luksHeaderBackup
>
>
>> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:27:02AM +0200, Ali Reza Sajedi wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I have cryptsetup 1.1.0 installed. I am trying to backup the header of a
>>> crypted USB drive using the following command: cryptsetup  
>>> luksHeaderBackup
>>> /dev/sdb1 --header-backup-file /etc/b2g/header when I execute the command
>>> from the shell it does the job, but, wenn I start it using http or cron
>>> (in webmin) it doesn't I tried to execute the command in webmin by a
>>> cron-job. What I get here is the following error:
>>>
>>> --header-backup-file: unknown option
>>>
>>> Could anyone see what is going wrong here, since it does work when  
>>> started
>>> at the shell but does fail when started otherwise. From which version is
>>> this command implemented? Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Ali
>>
>> I suspect you have two version on your system and different PATH
>> variables in cron/webmin and your normal shell. One way to find out
>> is to run "cryptsetup --version" in cron/webmin. To get the right
>> version to run, remove the old version and check whether you need
>> to adjust the search path for cron/webmin.
>>
>> Arno
>>
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