Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you tell me if I can
just add
the amanda user to my root group. If not what permission does the new disk
group need?
Thanks for all your help so far.
Jane.
> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 09:54, you wrote:
> >Thanks for your email, if I want to change my amanda to run as a
> > different user does this mean I have to re-install it?
> >
> >Jane.
> >
> Uhh, what source did you use to first do it?
>
> The reason I ask is that there are rpms floating about, usually of a
> somewhat aged nature.
>
> amanda is a work in progress although nothing has been done that
> makes for version incompatibilities since 2.4.1 was released 2 or
> so years ago.
>
> I am personally running the latest snapshot of version 2.4.3b3 which
> is available as tarballs from the web site of a Mr. Martineau
> at <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda>
>
> This is unpacked as user root in the /home/amanda directory, and a
> "chown -R amanda:disk amanda-2.4.3b3-20020805" is then done.
> Then I grab my configure script from the previous build and copy it
> into this newly unpacked directory. This script looks like this:
> ---------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> make clean
> rm -f config.status config.cache
> ./configure --with-user=amanda \
> --with-group=disk \
> --with-owner=amanda \
> --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \
> --with-changer-device=/dev/sg1 \
> --with-gnu-ld \
> --prefix=/usr/local \
> --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
> --with-tape-server=192.168.1.3 \
> --with-amandahosts \
> --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda
> -----------------------------------------------
> You'll need to modify the obvious stuff above of course, but once
> this script has been used, it should be used for all subsequent
> rebuilds. Do a "chmod +x" on whatever you name this and it will run
> directly, or you can do a "sh ./scriptname" also.
>
> But first su yourself to be user amanda before running it.
> When thats done, "make" it.
> When thats done, exit back to root, and "make install"
>
> This will automaticly take care of all the various permissions bits
> for you, and amanda will then be run from the user amanda's crontab
> or by the user amanda if by hand.
>
> You will of course need to generate the user "amanda" and make
> amanda a member of the group "disk". Such utilities as linuxconf
> make that an easy job.
>
> Last, your email agent is, in the spam filer 'Declude's eyes, (my
> ISP uses that utility for spam and viri killing) a broken one which
> caused my ISP to add a marker header, which in turn caused your
> message to be marked as read and moved to the local Junquemail
> folder for later forwarding to uce AT ftc DOT gov. I normally give it a
> quick scan before doing so and caught this one before I killed it.
>
> So you might want to see if its miss-configured or whatever.
>
> >> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:14, janebackup wrote:
> >> >Hi Chris,
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for your reply, I don't use the email facility but I run
> >> > a amreport and I get the following:
> >> >
> >> >FAILURE & STRANGE DUMP
> >> >
> >> >dataserv / Results missing
> >> >
> >> >Amanda is running as root so I don't think its permissions.
> >>
> >> amanda doesn't like running as root, usually totally refusing
> >> to, but will get root perms when she needs to. amanda should be
> >> run as an unpriviledged user who is a member of group disk or
> >> maybe backup, and will do an suid when required.
> >>
> >> >I'm compiling from source.
> >> >
> >> >I would be grateful if somebody could help me!
> >>
> >> The contents of this list usually get a recipe for building
> >> amanda from me about weekly, so you might want to look at the
> >> last couple of weeks worth to see one way of doing it that works
> >> here.
> >>
> >> >Thanks in advance and for your help so far.
> >> >
> >> >Jane.
> >> >
> >> >> jane,
> >> >> the disklist file looks fine. are you getting an email
> >> >> with errors? if so please send that and I can maybe help. If
> >> >> your getting "disk offline" errors it may be a permission
> >> >> issue. what user is amanda running as? are the filesystems
> >> >> (/dev/[sh]da[0-9]) owned by the group that amanda is running
> >> >> as? These are the first two things I would check. btw: I've
> >> >> had problems editing the group file by hand and adding amanda
> >> >> user to a group. It seems that the default group must be
> >> >> correct and amanda must be compiled with the correct options.
> >> >> Are you compiling from source or using an rpm?
> >> >> chrisj
> >> >>
> >> >> janebackup wrote:
> >> >> >Chris,
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single
> >> >> > directory (thought I'd do
> >> >
> >> >this
> >> >
> >> >> >first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem
> >> >> > does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist
> >> >> > file?:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >dataserv / always-full
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors.
> >> >> > Is my disklist file
> >> >
> >> >wrong?
> >> >
> >> >> >Thanks for your help.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Jane.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>jane
> >> >> >> Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory.
> >> >> >> Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and
> >> >> >> won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of
> >> >> >> the errors or looking at the logs? chris
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>janebackup wrote:
> >> >> >>>Hi,
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have
> >> >> >>> amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to
> >> >> >>> backup that one directory on that one machine with
> >> >
> >> >no
> >> >
> >> >> >>>tar/compression just to test for the minute. But even
> >> >> >>> that doesn't work the only
> >> >> >
> >> >> >error
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>>messages I get in amcheck are:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>WARNING: info file
> >> >> >>> /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does
> >> >> >>> not
> >> >
> >> >exist
> >> >
> >> >> >>>and in my report after I have ran amdump is:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>FAILURE & STRANGE dump summary
> >> >> >>>dataserv /tmp RESULTS MISSING
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>and also:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>I would be grateful any help!
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>Jane.
> >> >
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