I've got one system that comes up with improper protections
on /tmp at each boot - doesn't allow other write (goodness
I get the VMS mixed in there every time System, Owner, Group, World,
makes it very confusing when I need to set protections for User
rather than Owner and set the Other bits in the mask).

Anyway - I think my problem is someone was over-zellos with JASS
security modules.

I'm sure there is an option someone in your startup to fix or
even if necessary pre-create the directory and set the ownership
to that of the amanda user.

> 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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