Gene Heskett writes:
 > On Monday 24 November 2003 13:29, Cedric Boudin wrote:
 > >Paul Bijnens writes:
 > > > Cedric Boudin wrote:
 > > > > Hello honourable readers of the list,
 > > > >
 > > > > After some succesfull testing, I wanted to make a run for real.
 > > > > As recommended in the FAQ I removed:
 > > > >
 > > > >   -curinfo
 > > > >   -any log files from the log directory
 > > > >   -tapelist
 > > > >   -reseted the changer state file
 > > > >
 > > > > so I run the amcheck on a particular configuration and I do
 > > > > get:
 > > > >
 > > > > Amanda Tape Server Host Check
 > > > > -----------------------------
 > > > > Holding disk /var/backups/holdingdisk: 1431256 KB disk space
 > > > > available, that's plenty WARNING: skipping tape test because
 > > > > amdump or amflush seem to be running WARNING: if they are not,
 > > > > you must run amcleanup
 > > > > NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/test/curinfo/dell: does not
 > > > > exist NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/test/index/dell: does not
 > > > > exist Server check took 0.023 seconds
 > > > >
 > > > > ---------------
 > > > > so I run
 > > > > amcleanup on the configuration
 > > > >
 > > > > and amcheck does not believe me.
 > > > >
 > > > > I checked that I did not forget to delete the recommended files
 > > > >
 > > > > no process is running, no tape is in the drive
 > > >
 > > > Then there probably is a file named "amflush". Rename it to
 > > > "amflush.0" or "amflush.1" (next free number).
 > > > Maybe you ran amflush or other testing as root?  Then some
 > > > files/directores were created as root, and now owned by root,
 > > > amanda cannot write in them.
 > >
 > >I've cleaned everything up the amanda instalation is if a dare say
 > >virginal. I can't figure out where amcheck does get the info. No
 > >amanda process is runing and I' doubled checked theres is absolutely
 > >no file whatsover in /var/lib/amanda/test (indices or curinfo) and
 > >/var/log/amanda is as empty as it could be. I chown'ed all the dirs
 > >the amanda user is sole user
 > >????
 > 
 > Your user who is running amanda, needs to be a member of the rgoup 
 > backup or disk in order to have sufficient perms to do the job.
Amanda at my place is called backup and belongs to grp backup
can read write in /var/lib/amanda/ 700 /etc/amanda 700
/var/backups/holdingdisk 700 /var/log/amanda 700

 > 
 > On my system the user running amanda is amanda, so the chown command 
 > would be, from one level out of the root directory of anything amanda 
 > related "chown -R amanda:disk nameofdir"


 > 
 > You must do this recursively, hence the -R.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Cheers, Gene
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 > Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.