On Thursday 19 September 2002 17:15, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
>Hi, everyone,
>
>OK, I admit it.  amanda is kicking my you-know-what.
>
>amdump is failing because it's unable to write it's index files. 
> Why? From the errors it looks like a permissions problem, but the
> directory is owned by amanda and right now I've got everything
> opened up to chmod 777.  There error messages I'm getting look
> like:
>
>pip        /users5 lev 0 FAILED [err create
>/home/amanda/DailySet1/index/pip/_users5/20020919_0.gz.tmp:
> Permission denied]
>
>This is amanda 2.4.2p2 running on Red Hat 7.3.94 (null/RH8 beta).
>
>OK, I'm still doing something simple and stupid wrong.  Any clues
> what that might be?
>
>Thanks,
>Caity

The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the 
question/statement "you do have a user amanda, who is a member of 
group disk, don't you?"

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