Joshua,

        I had to add amandad to inetd.conf; chmod the /etc/dumpdates
file and chmod the raw devices files to allow the dump user to
write.  amcheck has no errors.  I am attempting a dump now.

Thanks for your help.


Jeff Parker


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:18:52AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> CCed back to the list -- please keep all discussions there, for the 
> archives and so others can jump in.
> 
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 10:13am, Jeffrey Parker wrote
> 
> >     Thanks for getting back to me.  I HAVE checked the above.
> > Here's where I am puzzled.  I get no  /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug?
> > because (I thought) that amandad is not configuired for the server.
> > All docs I have make no entry for amandad in inetd.conf.  I assumed
> 
> ??  That's not what docs/INSTALL says.  You need to set up (x)inetd 
> entries for amanda for all clients.
> 
> > I would not used amandad because the FS's are local.  Just for the
> 
> Even if it's the server, it's still also a client.
> 
> > heck of it, however, I tried putting the amandad entry for the clients
> > in the server inetd.conf and then I would get errors from dump
> > saying that the specified filesystems are not readable.
> 
> So now you've got permissions problems.  The user amanda is running as 
> needs to have read permissions on the raw disk devices.
> 
> BTW, it woule *really* help if you included the actual error messages when 
> asking for help.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

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