I have a similar situation, but instead of changing permissions of special
devices (particularly RAID devices), which may be protected by SELinux,
I list the directories I want to back up in the disklist.

Florian

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Sent: 6/17/2005 6:04 PM
Subject: lvm and amanda?

I know this isn't necessarily an amanda question, but I have a user
who's
setup two RedHat Enterprise 4 machines and used lvm.  Unfortunately, the

devices:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

has permissions:


drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 100 Jun  6 03:58 /dev/mapper

brw-r-----  1 root disk 253,  0 Jun  6 03:58 VolGroup00-LogVol00


and so amanda can't read these devices for backup.


We tried manually setting the groups to disk but on reboot the
permissions
get reset.   We tried editing  /etc/lvm/lvm.conf  with a umask of  002
and
setting the group "disk" on the directory on   /dev/mapper  but that
didn't
stick on reboot.  Any thoughts on a permanent solution on setting
permissions on these dynamically generated devices?


Any information would be appreciated.


Oscar