On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I set up amanda to backup some of my workstations. Now I encountered some 
> strange issue: On one workstation amanda can backup /home but not /. The 
> permissions in /dev are the same. The user amanda is in the disk group.
> 

What backup program are you using.  For tar the device permissions should
not matter.  For dump they do.

Are the entries in /dev symlinks to some other file, the actual device?
On some OSs they are.  Does "ls -lL" (both lower and upper 'ell') of the
devices give the same results as "ls -l"?

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