--On Thursday, October 28, 2004 19:11:41 -0500 Brian Tima <btima AT allcities 
DOT com> wrote:

> Is /dev/sda3 readable for the AMANDA-user?
> 
> How do I check if /dev/sda3 is readable by the amanda user?
> 
> What does "ll /dev/sda[13]" tell you?
> 
> It tells me 
> brw-rwx--- 1 root     disk    8, 1 Mar 19 2002 /dev/sda1
> brw-rwx--- 1 root     disk    8, 3 Mar 19 2002 /dev/sda3


Check to make sure your amanda user a member of the group 'disk'
on that server.

Frank
 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:46 PM
> To: Brian Tima
> Subject: Re: failure and strange dump summary
> 
> 
> Hi, Brian,
> 
> on Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 at 01:33 you wrote to amanda-users:
> 
> BT> I've been messing with AMANDA now for a couple months, I keep putting
> BT> off trying to resolve my issues. But once again, here I am. 
> BT> Attempting
> BT> to inquire if anyone has some direction for me on what I must do to
> BT> correct my disk being offline?
> 
> What does amcheck report?
> Is /dev/sda3 readable for the AMANDA-user?
> What does "ll /dev/sda[13]" tell you?
> 
> --
>  
> best regards,
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> 
> 



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