On Sunday 23 January 2005 01:06, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I put this back on the list.
>On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 23:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

>> This is a permissions problem I believe, possibly brought on by a
>> miss-build of amanda.  The tapelist does NOT need any extended
>> permissions to work, mine is currently (ls -l output):
>>
>> -rw-------  1 amanda disk   441 Jan 22 01:00 tapelist
>>
>> But note the user:group it reports.
>
>Mine says:
>-rw-rw-rw-  1 amanda disk    0 Jan 23 00:42 tapelist
>
>The mode change was my first attempt to cure the problem - to no
> avail.

Did you build amanda as the user amanda?  And did you then become root 
to do the installation?  I realize these are the standard dumb 
questions we always ask, but nearly everytime amanda has a perms 
problem, its traceable to some miss-queue in the build process.

Is your user amanda a member of group disk?

When I unpack each amanda tarball, one of the first things I do once 
the top level directory is visible, is to do a "chown -R amanda:disk 
name-of-top-level-dir", then I become amanda, copy in my build script 
to the top level directory, cd to it and run that script.  That 
script has been posted here in the past week if you want to look at 
it.  It Just Works(tm).  Then I become root and do the make install, 
and run a pass of ldconfig to refresh the library cache, followed by 
becomeing amanda again and running an amcheck /config/ just to make 
sure things are kosher.  I can't recall the last time they weren't.

-- 
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