On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:44:20AM -0500, Andrés Fernando Argüelles Delgado 
wrote:
> I finally made my amanda configuration work, The amcheck results are
> fine, but when I run amdump for a test it sends to
> /var/lib/amanda/dead.letter a error report:
> 
> >From amanda Mon Apr  4 01:36:18 2005
> Return-Path: <amanda>
> Received: (from amanda@localhost)
>       by localhost (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j346aII0010390
>       for amanda; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 01:36:18 -0500
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 01:36:18 -0500
> From: Amanda user <amanda>
> Message-Id: <200504040636.j346aII0010390@localhost>
> To: amanda
> Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 4, 2005
> 
> These dumps were to tape Etiqueta.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Etiqueta.
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   driver: FATAL exec /usr/local/libexec/dumper (dumper0): Permission denied
>   driver: FATAL exec /usr/local/libexec/dumper (dumper1): Permission denied
>   driver: FATAL exec /usr/local/libexec/dumper (dumper2): Permission denied
>   driver: FATAL exec /usr/local/libexec/dumper (dumper3): Permission denied

When you installed amanda, i.e. did "make install",
were you running as root?  You should have been.

I'm guessing that 'dumper', which should be executable, owned by root,
and set-uid, does not have the correct permissions.  Doing the install
as root should set them.


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