On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:13:29PM -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm receiving the following in my daily amanda check email :
> 
> ERROR: mail2.domain.com: [could not access /home/vpopmail/etc 
> (/home/vpopmail/etc): Permission denied]
> ERROR: mail1.domain.com: [could not access /home/vpopmail/etc 
> (/home/vpopmail/etc): Permission denied]
> 
> I don't see anything really special about that directory ..  I'm not sure why 
> permission is denied ??  Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> [friz@mail1 /]$ ls -lad home/
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Aug 12  2004 home/
> [friz@mail1 home]$ ls -lad vpopmail/
> drwxr-x---  9 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 May 16 16:21 vpopmail/
> [friz@mail1 vpopmail]$ ls -lad etc
> drwxr-xr-x  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 18 20:30 etc


IIRC, amcheck runs without root privileges and thus may not be
able to access directories that will be correctly backed up
by amdump.  To shut up amcheck, you will have to adjust the
permissions of all the directories leading to the root of a
DLE to be accessible by the amanda user.  Otherwise put up
with the messages.


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