On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Bram Smits wrote:
> New installation of Amanda 2.4.4p2i (compiled from source) on Mandrake 10.0
> 
> Trying to get it running on the local (tape server) host first and I'm 
> getting permission denied errors on the disk I'm trying to back up (root 
> partition) and the /etc/dumpdates file. 
> 
> I checked/fixed permissions, group membership, xinetd.d, .amandahosts, 
> disklist... (see below)   I'm missing something here, but can't figure 
> out what.
> 
> If it makes any difference, hardware is a Dell PE6150, disks are a 5*146G 
> raid-5 array on a PERC3 controller. sda1 is the 20G / partition, 500M used. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Bram
> 
> 
> $amcheck (edited for brevity)
> ERROR: fred: [could not access /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 
> (sda1): Permission denied]
> ERROR: fred: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied]
> 
> $more /etc/group (edited for brevity)
> root:x:0:amanda
> disk:x:6:amanda
> 
> $ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ 
> brw-r-----  1 root root 8, 1 Dec 31  1969 part1
> 
> $ls -l /etc/dumpdates 
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root disk 0 May 11 11:20 /etc/dumpdates
> 
> $more /etc/xinetd.d/amandad
> service amanda
> {
>         disable                 = no
>         socket_type             = dgram
>         wait                    = yes
>         user                    = amanda
>         server                  = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> }
> 
> $more .amandahosts
> fred.ravenclaw amanda
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> $more usr/local/etc/amanda/daily_sys/disklist (edited for brevity)
> fred sda1 always-full -1 local 
  ^^^^


It may be the difference in host names noted above.

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