On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:05:44PM +0100, Bram Metsch wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:53:34 -0500
> todd zenker <todd.e.zenker.1 AT gsfc.nasa DOT gov> wrote:
> 
> > I've compiled amanda on SunOS 8 box
> > ERROR!
> > could not access  /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0: Permission denied
> > 
> > Give some ideas where to look
> > I checked the following on client side
> > - .amandahosts
> > - /etc/services
> > - /etc/inetd.conf
> > 
> > Not sure what else to look for.
> > Any ideas
> > 
> Hello Todd,
> 
> to what user and group does the device /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 belong?
> The amanda user must have read access to this device. 
> So put the amanda user in the group that owns this device and make sure
> this group has got read permissions for it.
> 

Same comment with the caveat; On Solaris /dev/*dsk contains only symbolic
links to the real devices under /devices.  So don't check who owns the
links with 'ls -l /dev/dsk/*', check the devices they point to with
'ls -lL /dev/dsk/*' (both lower and upper case ell's).

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