On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> > This is what I have in disklist
> > 
> > srv1.methanesea.com /home/drew hard-disk-dump
> > 
> > This is my problem:
> ...
> > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> > --------------------------------
> > ERROR: srv1.methanesea.com: [could not access /home/drew (/home/drew): 
> > Permission denied]
> > Client check: 1 host checked in 0.018 seconds, 1 problem found
> > 
> > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)
> > 
> > Where am I getting the permissions problem?
> 
> It's always educational to have a look in the debug
> files /tmp/amanda/*.timestamp.debug and see the program
> that generated this errormessage.
> 
> > Is there something that needs to be suid in there?
> 
> rundump and runtar are both suid root (but I believe their effectiveness
> is not tested with amcheck, I should take a look in the source code
> for that.)
> 
> Seeing your dumptype "hard-disk-dump", are you using dump and not
> of gnutar?  And seeing the directory "/home/drew", is this a mountpoint
> or is this a subdirectory of a mount point?  That's because dump does
> not work on subdirectories; but in that case the message would be
> "disk offline?" or such.

Hmm, actually /home/drew is a subdirectory.  What you say makes sense and 
I shouldn't be using dump.  How do I change this to use tar?  I just 
changed it to hard-disk-tar and amcheck came out with no problems.  I 
think this was it.

Thanks
-jeremy

> But if it is a mount point and you are using dump, is amanda in the 
> group that can read the /dev/xxx file? (usually "disk" on Linux)
> 
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