On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 3:35pm, BRINER Cedric wrote

> amanda-2.4.4 compiled from scratch!
> linuxDistrib:mandrake9.2
> 
> The problem has I saw it now, is that the user/groups defined in the 
> amanda's xinet file cannot run the dump program correctly under the 
> backuped host (that what i've seen in the /tmp/amanda/sendsize.xx file):
> 
> cat /tmp/amanda/sendsize.xx
> ....
> sendsize[30425]: time 2.180: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - 
> /export/diskA1/pittelou"
> sendsize[30425]: time 2.180: running /unige/amanda/libexec/killpgrp
> sendsize[30425]: time 2.228:   DUMP: Cannot open /dev/hda6

What does 'ls -l /dev/hda6' say?

> #cat /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
> service amanda
> {
>          socket_type             = dgram
>          protocol                = udp
>          wait                    = yes
>          user                    = obs_bkp
>          group                   = sys
>          server                  = /unige/amanda/libexec/amandad
>          disable                 = no
> }

Hmm.  On my RH systems, I put amanda in the 'disk' group, which owns the 
raw disk devices.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University