Re: dumper and planner error.

On Thursday 22 April 2004 14:49, Sören Edzen wrote:
>* Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> [2004-04-21 23:58]:
>> Sören Edzen wrote:
>> >I belive I have dumper setuid root. It was one of the problems I
>> >solved before I managed to create backups with amanda. I used the
>> >following command:
>> >chmod +s /usr/lib/amanda/dumper
>> >Is this the right way to do it?
>>
>> Besides dumper there are others that have to be suid root.
>
>I know.
>
>> The proper way is to "make install" as root, instead
>> of fixing it with chmod.
>
>I did that. Maybe I should remove amanda and make a fresh install?

Yes. Nuke the src dir, unpack the archive fresh, then do as root:
chown -R amanda:disk srcdir

Then copy your config&build script into the new dir and run it as the 
user amanda.

If you don't have a config&make script, here is mine, adjust to suit:
--------------gh.cf--------------
#!/bin/sh
# since I'm always forgetting to su amanda...
if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
        echo
        echo "!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!"
        echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda,"
        echo "but must be installed by user root."
        echo
        exit 1
fi
make clean
rm -f config.status config.cache
./configure --with-user=amanda \
        --with-group=disk \
        --with-owner=amanda \
        --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \
        --with-changer-device=/dev/sg1 \
        --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \
        --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
        --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \
        --with-amandahosts \
        --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda

make
---------EOF, gh.cf---------

remove the changer-device line if not useing a tape robot.
adjust the tape-server line to be the FQDN of your server machine, 
noting that a machine may be both server and client.

Once the above script has run, then become root and do a "make 
install"

Then as user amanda, repeatadly run "amcheck YourConfigsName", fixing 
anything called an error, and ignoring the warnings as they will be 
fixed when amdump runs.

That should get you walking with at least one leg in the ring, ready 
to do some fine-tuning.

-- 
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