On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:39:11PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 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).

FS full?  Probably only valid if /tmp is not a separate FS.
> 
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> 
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