On Monday 18 November 2002 00:32, Kevin F. La Barre wrote:
>>I just chown'd all amanda related files to root:operator to
>> basically verify that this problem was truely a permissions
>> issue and things actually work.  Now I have to find out what
>> exactly is causing the perms issues when I run things as the
>> amanda user.
>
>-Kevin
>
While I've never used the operator group (I use the group disk for 
that), one should be aware that its often required to go back into 
the config dir, or one level up from it, and do as root, a command 
that resembles this one for my system:

chown -R amanda:disk *

which if you do it, and assuming you are currrently cd'd to say 
/usr/local/etc/amanda, will recursively set everything in the 
amanda directory and all directories deeper than that, to the 
user:group specified.  I've had editors change the owner back to 
root when updateing a file, and boom, instant problem.

You may have to execute it more than once while you are fine-tuning 
the configuration, and probably should do it once again when its 
all working just to catch the stragglers.  FWIW, vim doesn't seem 
to do that, kwrite often does.

To re-emphasize the docs, amanda should be unpacked, configured and 
made as user amanda, only doing an 'su -'  to root to do the make 
install.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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