--On Monday, August 22, 2005 23:13:29 -0400 Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold <friz AT 
godshell DOT com> 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

/home/vpopmail ccan only be traversed by the vpopmail user and users in the 
vchkpw group.  Normally
that wouldn't be an issue with Amanda, since the runtar and rundump executables 
are normally suid root
so that tar and dump can read everything.  Check to make sure yours are.

Another less likely possibility (at least for a mail directory) is that it 
happens to be an NFS mount
and the root user is being mapped to nobody (or equivalent) due to mount or 
export options.

Frank

> 
> Thanks!
> 
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