Hi Jim,

You needed 'groups=yes' in your xinetd config.

Jean-Louis

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:05:33PM -0600, Jim Summers wrote:
> First I would thank the list for all suggestions regarding the amrecover
> problem I was experiencing.  As it turns out the problem was a
> permissions issue as noted in the debug file of amidxtaped.  But why is 
> still a mystery.
> 
> Initially I was getting a permission denied on the tape device.  One
> suggestion was to add the group =, to the (x)inetd entry for
> amidxtaped.  Although that did not actually fix the problem it did
> change the error message in the debug file.  After that change I was
> getting a permission denied on the log file for that session.  Which the
> fix was to set the proper group, in my case disk, for the logs
> directory.  After that the amrecover session went fine.
> 
> In my installation the amanda user is bin.  Which bin belongs to the bin
> group and also disk group among others.  I had set the log directory to
> owner root and group bin.  Which worked fine for amdump and other amanda
> utilities.  So at this point I am not sure why amrecover forced the
> issue of group = disk, while the other utilities cruise right along and
> can write to directories / files with the group = bin.
> 
> I think on my next install I will go with the recommended user=amanda
> and then place that user in one group such as disk and then stay
> consistent across all the directories involved. 
> 
> Thanks again
> -- 
> Jim Summers <jsummers AT cs.ou DOT edu>
> University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

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