Amanda-Users

Re: all estimates failed for gnutar

2004-10-13 15:18:31
Subject: Re: all estimates failed for gnutar
From: Fernan Aguero <fernan AT iib.unsam.edu DOT ar>
To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:12:30 -0300
+----[ Toomas Aas <toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee> (13.Oct.2004 15:11):
|
| Fernan Aguero <fernan AT iib.unsam.edu DOT ar> wrote:
| 
| > Is there any place where permissions on files, directories,
| > etc are listed so I can check what a right installation
| > should look like?
| 
| Greetings from a fellow FreeBSD/Amanda sysadmin :-) Maybe we can use my 
| system (which works fine) as some kind of reference.

Hi!

| > All of my files (executables) are owned by amanda:operator, with the 
exception
| > of amqde, calcsize, amcheck, amrecover, dumper, killpgrp, planner, rundump 
and
| > runtar which are owned by root:operator and setuid'ed; and amandad,
| > patch-system, selfcheck, sendbackup, sendsize, versionsuffix, which are 
owned
| > by operator:operator and are not setuid.
| 
| The files that you listed as being owned by root are also owned by root 
| here. But this business of some files being owned by amanda and some by 
| operator doesn't seem quite right to me. I think all files that are not 
| owned by root should be owned by the user who was specified as 
| AMANDA_USER when installing the port. 
| 
| Now... let's notice that 'operator' is the default amanda-user used by 
| the port if AMANDA_USER is not defined.
| 
| Further, the directory listing below shows that files owned by operator 
| are dated Sep 28, whereas files owned by amanda are dated Sep 30.
| 
| This leads me to think that you have somehow made two installations on 
| top of each other, first one without specifying AMANDA_USER on Sep 28 
| and second one by specifying AMANDA_USER=amanda on Sep 30. Do you have 
| FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in /etc/make.conf?

No, I don't have FORCE_PKG_REGISTER set. And yes, though, I
don't remember well, it is possible that I installed first
without setting AMANDA_USER (defaulted to operator) and then
installed again, now setting AMANDA_USER to the value I wanted.

| Probably easiest way to get everything working correctly would be 
| pkg_deleting the Amanda ports and installing them again. However, if 
| the permissions of some files to be deleted are not what the ports 
| system expects, it may still leave them behind. So make sure you get 
| them before doing another install.
|
+----]

OK. I'll make sure to remove everything before reinstalling.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Fernan

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