Do you have an SELinux setting of "targeted" on that box? This may be related
to permissions--I must check this.

I have amanda installed on a CentOS box, and I have an RHEL 4 server with a similar RAID volume /dev entries. 



Following up on myself... (as usual on mondays)...


Paul Bijnens wrote:
>
> The good news is that Redhat just fixed this very recently.
> in device-mapper-1.01.01-1.RHEL4, which you can install by up2date
> or "yum update device-mapper".
>
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-188.html  says:
>
>  > [...]
>  > - The inodes created in the /dev/mapper directory when devices are
>  > activated are now accessible by the 'disk' group used by some
>  > backup tools.


The bad news is that I just rebooted a Centos 4 under VMWare to test
it,  with this patch installed, and the permissions are still bad.

brw-------  1 root root 253,  0 Jun 20  2005
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogRoot

Back to the drawing board or google page.


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