On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed 
> below:
> [...]

It's ufsdump saying this.  The leading "?"'s are a clue -- Amanda
prepends them to messages from the dump program that it doesn't
recognize (they ultimately appear in the report message, labelled
as "strange").  I confirmed it by finding the message in the
output of "strings /usr/sbin/ufsdump".

I don't know why it's happening.  Does ufsdump run as the Amanda
user or as root?  (Check the first couple of lines on one of the
sendbackup.* debug files).  If the former, well, you've checked
that that should be ok.  If it's root -- about the only reasons I
can think of that root couldn't create a file is if the
filesystem's mounted readonly (totally bogus for /tmp of course!)
or NFS-mounted and the permissions don't allow *world* write
(again very weird for /tmp and probably broken, but just barely
conceivable).

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