On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> 
> I've started to get this from one of the Solaris clients I backup. 
> There's nothing wrong with /tmp, I can create /tmp/foo just fine as the 
> amanda user, not a disk space issue, etc... I cannot find this error 
> message anywhere in the Amanda source.  Does anyone know what's throwing 
> this and why?  This machine has been backing up fine for weeks.
> 
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/sbin/ufsdump
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/sbin/ufsrestore -f... -
> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> sendbackup: info end
> ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed 
> below:
> ?     /tmp/
> ?     /var/tmp/
> ?     /
> ? Please correct this problem and rerun the program.

It is probably "trying" to create a /tmp/"amanda" directory,
the one that holds the debug files.

If somehow that name, amanda, became not a directory, or was
owned by someone else, then amanda would not be able to "recreate it".

Check for that situation and remove the offenders.
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